Scale-dependent background-error covariance localisation

Mark Buehner; Anna Shlyaeva

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v67.28027

Scale-dependent background-error covariance localisation

Tellus

Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1

By: Mark Buehner and Anna Shlyaeva

Open Access

|Dec 2015

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