Portraying climate scenario uncertainties in relation to tolerable regional climate change

Climate Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-14

  Hulme, Mike ^a   Brown, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Climate scenarios; Natural climate variability; Scenario uncertainties; UK climate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE SCENARIO; CLIMATE VARIATION; MODELLING; MODELLING APPROACH; SOCIAL IMPACT;

UK;

EID: 0031823578     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr010001     Document Type: Article

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