Optimizing the United Kingdom meteorological office data assimilation for ERS-1 scatterometer winds

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 736-746

  Andrews, P L ^a   Bell, R S ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001586944     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0736:OTUKMO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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