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Special thanks go to Satoru Honda, Alexander Korotkii, Gerald Schubert, and Igor Tsepelev for their invaluable contribution to the research on data assimilation in geodynamics presented in this paper. The German Science Foundation and the Russian Science Foundation are thanked for a support of the research related to data-driven modelling in geodynamics.

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  2. Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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  3. International Science Council, Paris, France

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Ismail-Zadeh, A. Data-driven Geodynamics. J Geol Soc India 97, 223–226 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-021-1670-x

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