A framework for interpreting climate model outputs

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 279-296

  Leith, Nadja A ^a   Chandler, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate model uncertainty; Contemporaneous auto regressive moving average models; Downscaling; Multimodel ensembles; Sufficient statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949528206     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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