Joint projections of temperature and precipitation change from multiple climate models: A hierarchical Bayesian approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-106

  Tebaldi, Claudia ^a,c   Sansó, Bruno ^b  

^a Climate Central   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report; Multimodel ensembles; Probabilistic projections; Temperature and precipitation change

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849156930     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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