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Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3983-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3983-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
Technical note
 | 
23 Jul 2018
Technical note |  | 23 Jul 2018

Technical note: Assessment of observation quality for data assimilation in flood models

Joanne A. Waller, Javier García-Pintado, David C. Mason, Sarah L. Dance, and Nancy K. Nichols

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