A methodology for quantifying uncertainty in climate projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 417-446

  Webster, Mort D ^a   Sokolov, Andrei P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0033830447     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005685317358     Document Type: Article

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