Ranking climate models by performance using actual values and anomalies: Implications for climate change impact assessments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  MacAdam, I ^a   Pitman, A J ^a   Whetton, P H ^b   Abramowitz, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

20TH CENTURY; ACTUAL TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE VARIABLES; FUTURE CLIMATE; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PERFORMANCE RANKINGS; SKILL SCORE; TIME-PERIODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANOMALY; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956082302     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043877     Document Type: Article

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