Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-21-955-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-21-955-2014
Research article
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23 Sep 2014
Research article |  | 23 Sep 2014

Improving the ensemble transform Kalman filter using a second-order Taylor approximation of the nonlinear observation operator

G. Wu, X. Yi, L. Wang, X. Liang, S. Zhang, X. Zhang, and X. Zheng

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