Articles | Volume 19, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13911-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13911-2019
Review article
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19 Nov 2019
Review article |  | 19 Nov 2019

Fundamentals of data assimilation applied to biogeochemistry

Peter J. Rayner, Anna M. Michalak, and Frédéric Chevallier

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