Can model weighting improve probabilistic projections of climate change?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1981-1998

  Räisänen, Jouni ^a   Ylhäisi, Jussi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projection; CMIP3; Cross validation; Probability; Temperature change; Weighting

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

HARNESS;

EID: 84861386891     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1217-8     Document Type: Article

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