Detecting failure of climate predictions

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 861-864

  Runge, Michael C ^a   Stroeve, Julienne C ^b,c   Barrett, Andrew P ^b   McDonald Madden, Eve ^d  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECISION ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC;

ANAS ACUTA;

EID: 84983670699     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3041     Document Type: Article

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