Numerical weather prediction

Data Assimilation: Making Sense of Observations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 381-406

  Swinbank, Richard ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84870603396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74703-1_15     Document Type: Chapter

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