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The impact of assimilating data from a remotely piloted aircraft on simulations of weak-wind orographic flow Cover

The impact of assimilating data from a remotely piloted aircraft on simulations of weak-wind orographic flow

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Language: English
Page range: 25421 - 25421
Submitted on: Jul 9, 2014
Accepted on: Nov 2, 2014
Published on: Dec 1, 2014
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2014 Hálfdán Ágústsson, Haraldur Ólafsson, Marius O. Jonasse, Ólafur Rögnvaldsson, published by Stockholm University Press
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