Radon short range forecasting through time series preprocessing and neural network modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Pasini, Antonello ^a   Ameli, Fabrizio ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADON; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; MIXING; TIME SERIES;

RADON PROGENY MEASUREMENTS; BOX MODELS; MIXING HEIGHT; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; RADON DATA; RADON PROGENY; SHORT-RANGE FORECASTING; STABILITY CONDITION;

GEOPHYSICS; FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEIGHT; MIXING; RADON;

EID: 0141539219     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016726     Document Type: Article

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