A Bayesian assessment of climate change using multimodel ensembles. Part I: Global mean surface temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3237-3256

  Min, Seung Ki ^a   Hense, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN DECISION METHOD; MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLES; SINGLE-MODEL ENSEMBLES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 33745459465     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3784.1     Document Type: Article

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