Estimating present climate in a warming world: A model-based approach

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 573-585

  Räisänen, Jouni ^a   Ruokolainen, Leena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate normals; CMIP3; Present climate; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; HINDCASTING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 50449099018     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0361-7     Document Type: Article

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