Weighting of model results for improving best estimates of climate change

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 407-422

  Räisänen, Jouni ^a   Ruokolainen, Leena ^a   Ylhäisi, Jussi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projection; CMIP3; Cross validation; Temperature change; Weighting

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 77953023527     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0659-8     Document Type: Article

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