Statistical significance of climate sensitivity predictors obtained by data mining

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1803-1808

  Caldwell, Peter M ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^b   Zelinka, Mark D ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^a   Santer, Benjamin D ^a   Sanderson, Benjamin M ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

climate sensitivity; CMIP; data mining; ensemble; intercomparison

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CMIP; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; ENSEMBLE; INTERCOMPARISONS; PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; SIGNIFICANCE TESTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

DATA MINING;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DATA MINING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84895643490     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059205     Document Type: Article

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