Ensemble Kalman Filter: Current status and potential

Data Assimilation: Making Sense of Observations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-92

  Kalnay, Eugenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74703-1_4     Document Type: Chapter

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