Investigating differences between event-as-class and probability density-based attribution statements with emerging climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 641-654

  Harrington, Luke ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE SYSTEM; FUTURE CLIMATE; HUMAN INFLUENCES; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESEARCH WORK; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 85011284946     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-1906-3     Document Type: Article

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