Skill and uncertainty in climate models

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 556-564

  Hargreaves, Julia C ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN PARADIGM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; WEATHER PREDICTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 79952167737     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.58     Document Type: Article

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