Tracking atmospheric instabilities with the Kalman filter. Part II: Two-layer results

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2340-2352

  Ghil, Michael ^a,b   Tooling, Ricardo ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000448337     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<2340:TAIWTK>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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