Predicting conductivity and acidity for small streams using neural networks

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1030-1039

  Bastarache, Daniel ^a   El Jabi, Nassir ^a   Turkkan, Noyan ^a   Clair, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Network; Neural; pH; Polynomial; Prediction; Stream

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000095706     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjce-24-6-1030     Document Type: Article

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