Weighting climate model ensembles for mean and variance estimates

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3169-3181

  Haughton, Ned ^a   Abramowitz, Gab ^a   Pitman, Andy ^a   Phipps, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD;

EID: 84947491912     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2531-3     Document Type: Article

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