Constraints on radiative forcing and future climate change from observations and climate model ensembles

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6882, 2002, Pages 719-723

  Knutti, Reto ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a   Joos, Fortunat ^a   Plattner, Gian Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

RADIATIVE FORCING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE FORCING;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037129209     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416719a     Document Type: Article

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