Quantifying the effects of dynamical noise on the predictability of a simple ecosystem model

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Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 337-355

  Bailey, Barbara A ^a   Doney, Scott C ^b   Lima, Ivan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lyapunov exponents; Neural network models; Nonlinear time series

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING;

EID: 2942528794     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.645     Document Type: Article

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