Development of a model to reproduce observed suspended sediment distributions in the southern North Sea using Principal Component Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 761-778

  McManus, Julia P ^a   Prandle, David ^a  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; MODEL; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

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EID: 0030619609     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(96)00057-X     Document Type: Article

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