Improving model fidelity and sensitivity for complex systems through empirical information theory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 10044-10049

  Majda, Andrew J ^a   Gershgorin, Boris ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse graining; Inadequate resolution

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 79959988672     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105174108     Document Type: Article

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