Connectivity Modeling System: A probabilistic modeling tool for the multi-scale tracking of biotic and abiotic variability in the ocean

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-54

  Paris, Claire B ^a   Helgers, Judith ^a   van Sebille, Erik ^a,b   Srinivasan, Ashwanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biotic variability; Inertial motion; Lagrangian; Multi scale; Open source; Probabilistic

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC VARIABILITY; INERTIAL MOTIONS; LAGRANGIAN; MULTISCALES; OPEN-SOURCE; PROBABILISTIC;

DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MARINE APPLICATIONS; MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WATER POLLUTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; BUOYANCY; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GLOBAL OCEAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; INERTIA; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY; SWIMMING; TRACKING; WATER MASS;

EID: 84874539877     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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