Neural computation in paleoclimatology: General methodology and a case study

Neurocomputing

Volumn 113, Issue , 2013, Pages 262-268

  Carro Calvo, L ^a   Salcedo Sanz, S ^a   Luterbacher, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Neural networks; Paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; NEURAL COMPUTATIONS; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

RAIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PERCEPTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WINTER;

EID: 84877613015     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2012.12.045     Document Type: Article

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