Inferring likelihoods and climate system characteristics from climate models and multiple tracers

Environmetrics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 345-362

  Sham Bhat, K ^a   Haran, Murali ^b   Olson, Roman ^b   Keller, Klaus ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical modeling; Climate change; Computer experiments; Computer model calibration; Gaussian process; Multivariate spatial data

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DIFFUSIVITY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LATITUDE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OVERTURN; RISK FACTOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861522740     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2149     Document Type: Article

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