Ensuring reliable datasets for environmental models and forecasts

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 237-247

  Boose, Emery R ^a   Ellison, Aaron M ^a   Osterweil, Leon J ^b   Clarke, Lori A ^b   Podorozhny, Rodion ^c   Hadley, Julian L ^a   Wise, Alexander ^b   Foster, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic web; Little JIL; Metadata; Process; Sensor network; Water flux

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348871057     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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