Improving the spin-up of regional EnKF for typhoon assimilation and forecasting with Typhoon Sinlaku (2008)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.20804 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 20804 - 20804
Submitted on: Mar 8, 2013
Accepted on: Aug 14, 2013
Published on: Dec 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2013 Shu-Chih Yang, Kuan-Jen Lin, Takemasa Miyoshi, Eugenia Kalnay, published by Stockholm University Press
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