Regional probabilities of precipitation change: A Bayesian analysis of multimodel simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Tebaldi, C ^a   Mearns, L O ^a   Nychka, D ^a   Smith, R L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

1699 Global change: General or miscellaneous; 6309 Policy sciences: Decision making under uncertainty; 6334 Policy sciences: Regional planning

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BAYESIAN MODELS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 14544276393     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021276     Document Type: Article

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