Rethinking the default construction of multimodel climate ensembles

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 911-919

  Rauser, Florian ^a   Gleckler, Peter ^b   Marotzke, Jochem ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

MODEL DATA; MULTI-MODEL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84938379381     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00181.1     Document Type: Review

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