The birth of numerical weather prediction

A. Wiin-Nielsen

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v43i4.15397

The birth of numerical weather prediction

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 43 (1991): Issue 4

By: A. Wiin-Nielsen

Open Access

|Jan 1991

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