Probability-Weighted Ensembles of U.S. County-Level Climate Projections for Climate Risk Analysis

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2301-2322

  Rasmussen, D J ^a,f   Meinshausen, Malte ^b,c   Kopp, Robert E ^d,e  

^a Rhodium Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Rutgers University   (United States)

^e USA   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate variability; Regional effects; Risk assessment; Societal impacts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REGIONAL EFFECTS; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84992724514     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0302.1     Document Type: Article

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