Prediction of all India summer monsoon rainfall using error-back-propagation neural networks

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 225-240

  Venkatesan, C ^a   Raskar, S D ^b   Tambe, S S ^b   Kulkarni, B D ^b   Keshavamurty, R N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

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EID: 0031504678     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01029704     Document Type: Article

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