Representations of inverse covariances by differential operators

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 181-198

  Xu, Qin ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Differential operator; Inverse background covariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 15944426807     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02918508     Document Type: Article

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