Climate informatics

Computational Intelligent Data Analysis for Sustainable Development

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 81-126

  Monteleoni, Claire ^a   Schmidt, Gavin A ^b   Alexander, Francis ^c   Niculescu Mizil, Alexandru ^d   Steinhaeuser, Karsten ^e   Tippett, Michael ^f   Banerjee, Arindam ^g   Benno Blumenthal, M ^f   Ganguly, Auroop R ^h   Smerdon, Jason E ⁱ   Tedesco, Marco ^j  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^d NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f Earth Institute   (United States)

^g University of Minnesota   (United States)

^h Northeastern University   (United States)

ⁱ International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^j CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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