Analysing uncertainties in climate change impact assessment across sectors and scenarios

Climatic Change

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 293-306

  Brown, Calum ^a   Brown, Evan ^a   Murray Rust, Dave ^a   Cojocaru, George ^b,c   Savin, Cristina ^b   Rounsevell, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TIAMASG Foundation   (Romania)

^c Res Inst Soil Sci and Agrochem   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT PLATFORMS; POTENTIAL ERRORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS (PDFS); QUANTITATIVE UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; SECTORAL IMPACTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84922000456     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1133-0     Document Type: Article

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