Mathematics applied to the climate system: Outstanding challenges and recent progress

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1991, 2013, Pages

  Williams, Paul D ^a   Cullen, Michael J P ^b   Davey, Michael K ^b,d   Huthnance, John M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applied Mathematics; Climate Change; Conceptual Models; General Circulation Models; Model Evaluation; Statistical Frameworks

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

APPLIED MATHEMATICS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL EVALUATION; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84876588287     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0518     Document Type: Review

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