Quantifying uncertainty in projections of regional climate change: A Bayesian approach to the analysis of multimodel ensembles

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1524-1540

  Tebaldi, Claudia ^a   Smith, Richard L ^b   Nychka, Doug ^a   Mearns, Linda O ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (AOGCM); BAYESIAN STATISTICAL MODEL; CLIMATOLOGISTS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 14544287376     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3363.1     Document Type: Article

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