Extension of spherical nonparametric estimators to nonisotropic kernels: an océanographie application

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 214-227

  Hodges, K I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; ANISOTROPY; FLUID DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

EID: 0032599680     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0214:EOSNET>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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