Quantifying statistical uncertainty in the attribution of human influence on severe weather

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 20, Issue , 2018, Pages 69-80

  Paciorek, Christopher J ^a   Stone, Dáithí A ^b   Wehner, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Climate change; Confidence interval; Event attribution; Likelihood ratio; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMISSION; EXTREME EVENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEVERE WEATHER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85044955456     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2018.01.002     Document Type: Article

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