Link between statistical equilibrium fidelity and forecasting skill for complex systems with model error

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

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12599-12604

  Majda, Andrew J ^a   Gershgorin, Boris ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDDY COVARIANCE; EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL FIDELITY; FORECASTING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL ERROR; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROSCIENCES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79961230409     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108132108     Document Type: Article

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