How well must climate models agree with observations?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2052, 2015, Pages

  Notz, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earth system models; Evaluation; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ICE; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; DOMINANT PROCESS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EVALUATION; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MODEL EVALUATION; STANDARD METRICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84941253803     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0164     Document Type: Article

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