Simulation of phytoplankton biomass in Quanzhou Bay using a back propagation network model and sensitivity analysis for environmental variables

Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 843-851

  Zheng, Wei ^a   Shi, Honghua ^a   Song, Xikun ^b,c   Huang, Dongren ^c   Hu, Long ^d  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Fujian Province Ocean Environment and Fishery Resources Monitoring Center   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

back propagation (BP) network; global sensitivity analysis; phytoplankton biomass; Quanzhou Bay; simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867421647     PISSN: 02544059     EISSN: 19935005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00343-012-1216-6     Document Type: Article

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