A transparent method for the analysis and quality evaluation of irregulary distributed and noisy observational data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 7 I, 2000, Pages 2303-2316

  Steinacker, Reinhold ^a   Häberli, Christian ^a   Pöttschacher, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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ERROR CORRECTION; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0033833594     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2303:ATMFTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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