A Simple, coherent framework for partitioning uncertainty in climate predictions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4634-4643

  Yip, Stan ^a   Ferro, Christopher A T ^a   Stephenson, David B ^a   Hawkins, Ed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Coupled models; Ensembles; Model comparison; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLED MODELS; ENSEMBLES; MODEL COMPARISON; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); CLIMATE CHANGE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053139719     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4085.1     Document Type: Article

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