Constructing climate knowledge with computer models

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 565-580

  Müller, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTER MODELS; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; POLICY DECISIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 79956278218     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.60     Document Type: Article

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