Quantifying sources of uncertainty in projections of future climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8793-8808

  Northrop, Paul J ^a   Chandler, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; REGIONAL PLANNING;

COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84919608236     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00265.1     Document Type: Article

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