Can we trust climate models?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 435-440

  Hargreaves, J C ^a   Annan, J D ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FORECASTING;

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; DECADAL TIMESCALE; HIGH LATITUDES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; RATE OF INCREASE; SPATIAL SCALE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE;

EID: 84903201725     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.288     Document Type: Article

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