Objective probabilities about future climate are a matter of opinion

Climatic Change

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-46

  Gay, Carlos ^a   Estrada, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; EXPERT JUDGMENT; FUTURE CLIMATE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY DISTRIBUTION; OBJECTIVE PROBABILITIES; PARTIAL INFORMATION; POSITIVE PROBABILITY; PRINCIPLE OF MAXIMUM ENTROPY; SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

ENTROPY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 77149158118     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9681-4     Document Type: Article

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