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Assimilation of zenith total delays in the AROME France convective scale model: a recent assessment Cover

Assimilation of zenith total delays in the AROME France convective scale model: a recent assessment

Tellus
Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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|Dec 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.26106 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 26106 - 26106
Submitted on: Sep 23, 2014
Accepted on: Jan 25, 2015
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
mesoscale modelling,
zenith total delays,
data assimilation,
numerical weather prediction

© 2015 Jean-Francois Mahfouf, Furqan Ahmed, Patrick Moll, Felix N. Teferle, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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