Visualization of huge climate data with high-speed spherical self-organizing map

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 210-216

  Tachibana, Kanta ^a   Sugimoto, Norihiko ^b   Shiogama, Hideo ^c   Nozawa, Toru ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Huge climate data; Spherical self organizing map

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749338831     PISSN: 13430130     EISSN: 18838014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jaciii.2009.p0210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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