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Special Section

Estimating and including observation-error correlations in data assimilation

Takemasa MiyoshiDepartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Eugenia KalnayDepartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Hong LiShanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China
Pages 387-398 | Received 16 Jun 2012, Accepted 19 Jun 2012, Published online: 31 Aug 2012

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