On the observational assessment of climate model performance

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Annan, J D ^a   Hargreaves, J C ^a   Tachiiri, K ^a  

^a Research Institute for Global Change ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CLIMATE SYSTEM; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; MODEL ASSESSMENT; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL PREDICTION; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MODEL TEST; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84055191531     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049812     Document Type: Article

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