Holism and Entrenchment in Climate Model Validation

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Volumn 274, Issue , 2011, Pages 115-130

  Lenhard, Johannes ^a   Winsberg, Eric ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic Understanding; Atmospheric GCMs; Auxiliary Hypothesis; Couple Model Intercomparison Project; Model Pluralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855758283     PISSN: 00680346     EISSN: 22147942     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9051-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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