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Assimilation of wind speed and direction observations: results from real observation experiments

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Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.27132 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 27132 - 27132
Submitted on: Jan 1, 2015
Accepted on: Apr 30, 2015
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
WRFDA,
observation operator,
observation error,
quality control,
variational assimilation

© 2015 Feng Gao, Xiang-Yu Huang, Neil A. Jacobs, Hongli Wang, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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