A new strategy for solving a class of constrained nonlinear optimization problems related to weather and climate predictability

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 741-749

  Duan, Wansuo ^a   Luo, Haiying ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Constrained nonlinear optimization problems; Predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953929948     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9141-0     Document Type: Article

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