Irreducible imprecision in atmospheric and oceanic simulations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 8709-8713

  McWilliams, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Climate; Global change; Ocean; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALIBRATION; DYNAMICS; FLOW; FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIMULATION; SPACE; TIME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547452304     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702971104     Document Type: Article

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