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Pasini, A. (2009). Neural Network Modeling in Climate Change Studies. In: Haupt, S.E., Pasini, A., Marzban, C. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9119-3_12
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