Testing ensembles of climate change scenarios for "statistical significance"

Climatic Change

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-9

  von Storch, Hans ^a   Zwiers, Francis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SAMPLING;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; LOCAL CLIMATE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WELL-POSED PROBLEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; SAMPLING; TERMINOLOGY; TESTING METHOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84873738511     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0551-0     Document Type: Article

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