Sources of knowledge and ignorance in climate research

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 755-773

  Risbey, James S ^a,b   O'Kane, Terence J ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; CLIMATE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE VARIABLES; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; DYNAMICAL INSTABILITIES; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; GUIDANCE DOCUMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; STANDARD METHOD; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STANDARD (REGULATION); THERMODYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053297327     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0186-6     Document Type: Article

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