Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Forecast and Observation Error Covariance Parameters. Part I: Methodology

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  1999

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  Monthly Weather Review

• Publication date

  1999-08-01

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  Mathematics, Economics

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  DOI 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1822:MLEOFA>2.0.CO;2
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