Modelling DOC export from watersheds in Scotland using neural networks

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 423-436

  Aitkenhead, M J ^a   Aitkenhead Peterson, J A ^b   McDowell, W H ^b   Smart, R P ^c   Cresser, M S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon flux; DOC; Neural network; Scotland; Watershed

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW;

CARBON FLUX; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON (DOC); MECHANISTIC MODELS; STREAM FLUX;

WATERSHEDS;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

CARBON FLUX; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; WATERSHED;

DEE RIVER [SCOTLAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846622960     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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