A method to aid in the determination of the sampling size of AGCM ensemble simulations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 321-331

  Wehner, M F ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034067949     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050331     Document Type: Article

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