Equipped to deal with uncertainty in climate and impacts predictions: lessons from internal peer review

Climatic Change

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-14

  Wesselink, Anna ^a   Challinor, Andrew Juan ^a   Watson, James ^a   Beven, Keith ^a   Allen, Icarus ^a   Hanlon, Helen ^a   Lopez, Ana ^a   Lorenz, Susanne ^a   Otto, Friederike ^a   Morse, Andy ^a   Rye, Cameron ^a   Saux Picard, Stephane ^a   Stainforth, David ^a   Suckling, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; NUMERICAL RANGE; PEER REVIEW; POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; REPORTING FORMATS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL MODELLING; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84940718046     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1213-1     Document Type: Article

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