What Is an Adjoint Model?

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2577-2591

  Errico, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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ADJOINT MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0031400136     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2577:WIAAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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