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Estimation of analysis and forecast error variances

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Language: English
Page range: 21767 - 21767
Submitted on: Jun 17, 2013
Accepted on: Sep 30, 2014
Published on: Dec 1, 2014
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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