Towards Reducing Climate Change Impact Assessment Process Uncertainty

Environmental Processes

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 275-290

  Gaur, Abhishek ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Impact assessment; Robustness; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; PROCESS APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84950322716     PISSN: 21987491     EISSN: 21987505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40710-015-0070-x     Document Type: Article

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