Correlation functions for atmospheric data analysis

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 559, 1999, Pages 2449-2464

  Gneiting, Tilmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact support; Data assimilation; Isotropic correlation functions; Parametrized model; Positive definite functions

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION;

EID: 0033402208     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55905     Document Type: Article

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