Statistical dependence in input data of national greenhouse gas inventories: Effects on the overall inventory uncertainty

Climatic Change

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 19-36

  Winiwarter, Wilfried ^a,b   Muik, Barbara ^c  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; COUNTRY COMPARISONS; EMISSION LEVEL; EMISSION TRENDS; EMISSION UNCERTAINTIES; ERROR PROPAGATION; GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY; INPUT DATAS; INPUT PARAMETER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; NITROUS OXIDE; PERCENTAGE POINTS; RELEASE RATE; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCIES; STATISTICALLY DEPENDENT; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NITROGEN OXIDES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOILS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EMISSION INVENTORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL EMISSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 77958449408     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9921-7     Document Type: Article

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