Probabilistic climate change projections using neural networks

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 257-272

  Knutti, R ^a   Stocker, T F ^a   Joos, F ^a   Plattner, G K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CARBON BUDGET; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0142230508     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-003-0345-1     Document Type: Article

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