Objective measures of the information density of satellite data

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 105-117

  Huang, H L ^a   Purser, R J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^d W NMC2   (United States)

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EID: 0030523071     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01029788     Document Type: Article

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