Statistical, physical, and computational aspects of massive data analysis and assimilation in atmospheric applications

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 559-574

  Levy, Gad ^a   Pu, Calton ^b   Sampson, Paul D ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous correlation structure; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033245947     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1999.10474833     Document Type: Article

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