The tolerable windows approach: Theoretical and methodological foundations

Climatic Change

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 303-331

  Petschel Held, Gerhard ^a   Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim ^a   Bruckner, Thomas ^a   Tóth, Ferenc L ^a   Hasselmann, Klaus ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0032994240     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005487123751     Document Type: Article

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