The unseen uncertainties in climate change: reviewing comprehension of an IPCC scenario graph

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 141-154

  McMahon, Rosemarie ^a   Stauffacher, Michael ^b   Knutti, Reto ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; EMISSION SCENARIO; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84951568661     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1473-4     Document Type: Article

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