Identifying key sources of uncertainty in climate change projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 421-457

  Visser, H ^a   Folkert, R J M ^a   Hoekstra, J ^a   De Wolff, J J ^a  

^a KEMA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034118238     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005516020996     Document Type: Article

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