Using climate models to estimate the quality of global observational data sets

Science

Volumn 354, Issue 6311, 2016, Pages 452-455

  Massonnet, François ^a,b   Bellprat, Omar ^a   Guemas, Virginie ^a,c   Doblas Reyes, Francisco J ^a,d  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; SAMPLING ERROR; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 84990925088     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6369     Document Type: Article

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