Climate change impact assessment: Uncertainty modeling with imprecise probability

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Ghosh, Subimal ^a   Mujumdar, P P ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

20TH CENTURY; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DATA DISTRIBUTION; DOWN-SCALING; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGIC IMPACTS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MODEL CONVERGENCE; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MONSOON RAINFALL; OBSERVED DATA; TIME SLICE; UNCERTAINTY MODELING; WEIGHTED MEAN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MONSOON; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; ORISSA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 72049103978     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011648     Document Type: Article

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