Assessing marine ecosystem model properties from ensemble calculations

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 242, Issue , 2012, Pages 164-179

  Fiechter, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble calculation, Numerical modeling; Gulf of alaska; Marine ecosystem; Parameter uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; COUPLED PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM COMPONENTS; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE STATISTICS; ENTIRE DOMAIN; GULF OF ALASKA; IRON-LIMITATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL SOLUTION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PARAMETER SELECTION; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SUB-REGIONS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CHLOROPHYLL; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR STATISTICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLANKTON; PREDICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863469598     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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