Probabilistic climate change predictions applying Bayesian model averaging

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

Volumn 365, Issue 1857, 2007, Pages 2103-2116

  Min, Seung Ki ^a,b   Simonis, Daniel ^a   Hense, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian model averaging; Global climate change; Probabilistic prediction; Surface air temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547216771     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2070     Document Type: Article

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