Articles | Volume 25, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-589-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-589-2018
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24 Aug 2018
Research article |  | 24 Aug 2018

Ensemble variational assimilation as a probabilistic estimator – Part 2: The fully non-linear case

Mohamed Jardak and Olivier Talagrand

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