Application of an automatic approach to calibrate the NEMURO nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton food web model in the Oyashio region

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 87, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 186-200

  Ito, Shin ichi ^a   Yoshie, Naoki ^b   Okunishi, Takeshi ^c   Ono, Tsuneo ^d   Okazaki, Yuji ^a   Kuwata, Akira ^a   Hashioka, Taketo ^e,f   Rose, Kenneth A ^g   Megrey, Bernard A ^h   Kishi, Michio J ^e,i   Nakamachi, Miwa ^a   Shimizu, Yugo ^a   Kakehi, Shigeho ^a   Saito, Hiroaki ^a   Takahashi, Kazutaka ^a   Tadokoro, Kazuaki ^a   Kusaka, Akira ^d   Kasai, Hiromi ^d  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^g LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; AD-HOC SETS; AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CALIBRATION METHOD; CHLOROPHYLL A; CLIMATOLOGICAL FIELDS; DERIVED DATA; DETERMINATION OF PARAMETERS; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; FIELD DATA; FIRST-ORDER; FOOD WEB MODEL; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; MODEL FIT; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; NORTH PACIFIC; OVERFITTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION METHODS; PARAMETER VALUES; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATED DATA; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL MAPS; STATE VARIABLES; SUBARCTIC OCEAN; TWIN EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL MIGRATION; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; ZOOPLANKTON DYNAMICS;

AGGLOMERATION; ALGAE CONTROL; CALIBRATION; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; NUTRIENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONTOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA; VERTICAL MIGRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

OYASHIO REGION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78649786385     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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