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Original Articles

Relative Performance of the MLE3 and MLE4 Retracking Algorithms on Jason-2 Altimeter Waveforms

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Pages 317-335 | Received 06 Jan 2010, Accepted 28 Mar 2010, Published online: 09 Aug 2010

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