Modelling climate change: The role of unresolved processes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1837, 2005, Pages 2931-2946

  Williams, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global warming; Meteorology; Oceanography; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144498292     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1676     Document Type: Review

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