Analyzing the climate sensitivity of the HadSM3 climate model using ensembles from different but related experiments

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3540-3557

  Rougier, Jonathan ^a   Sexton, David M H ^b   Murphy, James M ^b   Stainforth, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLOUD PARAMETERS; ENTRAINMENT RATES; EXPERT JUDGMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SINGLE PARAMETER; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; STATISTICAL TOOLS; SUBGRID SCALE;

EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67749118304     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2533.1     Document Type: Article

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