National greenhouse gas inventories: Understanding uncertainties versus potential for improving reliability

Accounting for Climate Change: Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories - Verification, Compliance, and Trading

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-30

  Winiwarter, W ^a,b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

greenhouse gases; inventory quality considerations; Kyoto Protocol; model uncertainty; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958493534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5930-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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