Variational quality control

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 554, 1999, Pages 697-722

  Andersson, Erik ^a   Järvinen, Heikki ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Quality control; Variational assimilation

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0344603648     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55415     Document Type: Article

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