Climate model dependence and the ensemble dependence transformation of CMIP projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2332-2348

  Abramowitz, G ^a   Bishop, C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Ensembles; Error analysis; Model errors; Model evaluation performance; Model output statistics

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; ENSEMBLES; MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCE; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PROJECTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

EID: 84925989663     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00364.1     Document Type: Article

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