Testing Climate Models: An Approach

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2541-2549

  Goody, Richard ^c   Anderson, James ^a   North, Gerald ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE; MODEL;

EID: 0032450418     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<2541:TCMAA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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