Precalibrating an intermediate complexity climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1469-1482

  Edwards, Neil R ^a   Cameron, David ^b   Rougier, Jonathan ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intermediate complexity climate model; Probabilistic prediction; Thermohaline circulation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053329774     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0921-0     Document Type: Article

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