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R Dixon1, E Spackman

  • 1Meteorological Office, Bracknell.

Nature
|April 11, 1970
PubMed
まとめ

気象データと大気モデルが急速に進歩しています. この研究は,現在の二次元方法の限界を克服するために,四次元分析システムの開発の進展を詳細に説明しています.

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