Climate change prediction

Climatic Change

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 239-265

  Giorgi, Filippo ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENY; CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE;

EID: 27744439149     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-6857-4     Document Type: Review

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