Building trust in climate science: Data products for the 21st century

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Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 373-381

  Chandler, Richard E ^a   Thorne, Peter ^b   Lawrimore, Jay ^c   Willett, Kate ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Climate; Governance; Public trust in science; Transparency

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TIMESCALE; TRANSPARENCY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84868612852     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2141     Document Type: Article

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