Assessing decision support systems and levels of confidence to narrow the climate information “usability gap”

Climatic Change

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 143-155

  Moss, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE SCIENCE; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION SUPPORT PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959107977     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1549-1     Document Type: Article

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