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Assimilating high-resolution winds from a Doppler lidar using an ensemble Kalman filter with lateral boundary adjustment Cover

Assimilating high-resolution winds from a Doppler lidar using an ensemble Kalman filter with lateral boundary adjustment

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Language: English
Page range: 23473 - 23473
Submitted on: Nov 29, 2013
Accepted on: Feb 5, 2015
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2015 Masahiro Sawada, Tsuyoshi Sakai, Toshiki Iwasaki, Hiromu Seko, Kazuo Saito, Takemasa Miyoshi, published by Stockholm University Press
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