Assimilation of geosat altimeter data for the agulhas current using the ensemble kalman filter with a quasigeostrophic model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-96

  Evensen, Geir ^a   Van Leeuwen, Peter Jan ^b  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0002162819     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0085:AOGADF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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