Probability distributions for carbon emissions and atmospheric response

Climatic Change

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 309-342

  Singer, Clifford E ^a   Rethinaraj, T S Gopi ^a   Addy, Samuel ^a   Durham, David ^a   Isik, Murat ^a   Khanna, Madhu ^a   Kuehl, Brandon ^a   Luo, Jianding ^a   Quimio, Wilma ^a   Rajendran, Kothavari ^a   Ramirez, Donna ^a   Qiang, Ji ^a   Scheffran, Jürgen ^a   Tiouririne, T Nedjla ^a   Zhang, Junli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMBUSTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CARBON BURNING; CARBON INTENSITY; ENERGY PRODUCTION;

GAS EMISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BURNING; CALIBRATION; CARBON BALANCE; EMISSION; HEAT BALANCE; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; PROBABILITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TIME SERIES;

EID: 44949203423     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9410-4     Document Type: Article

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