Recent progress of the NHM-4DVAR towards a super-high resolution data assimilation

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 145-149

  Kawabata, Takuya ^a   Ito, Kosuke ^a,b   Saito, Kazuo ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

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EID: 84920703748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2014-030     Document Type: Article

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