Neural network forecasts of the tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures

Neural Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-154

  Wu, Aiming ^a   Hsieh, William W ^a   Tang, Benyang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; ENSO; Forecast; Neural network; Nonlinear; Sea surface temperature; Tropical Pacific

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EL NIÑO; ENSO; FORECAST; NONLINEAR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL PACIFIC;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; EL NINO; FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33645959158     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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