Climate models and their evaluation

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Randall, David A., Wood, Richard A., Bony, Sandrine, Colman, Robert, Fichefet, Thierry, Fyfe, John, Kattsov, Vladimir, Pitman, Andrew, Shukla, Jagadish, Srinivasan, Jayaraman, Stouffer, Ronald J., Sumi, Akimasa and Taylor, K.E.. 2007. "Climate models and their evaluation." Solomon, Susan, Dahe, Qin, Manning, Martin, Marquis, Melinda, Averyt, Kristen, Tignor, Melinda M. B., Miller, Henry LeRoy and Chen, Zhenlin (ed.) Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. pp. 589-662
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Climate models and their evaluation

Book Chapter CategoryEdited book (chapter)
ERA Publisher ID1418
Book TitleClimate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
AuthorsRandall, David A. (Author), Wood, Richard A. (Author), Bony, Sandrine (Author), Colman, Robert (Author), Fichefet, Thierry (Author), Fyfe, John (Author), Kattsov, Vladimir (Author), Pitman, Andrew (Author), Shukla, Jagadish (Author), Srinivasan, Jayaraman (Author), Stouffer, Ronald J. (Author), Sumi, Akimasa (Author) and Taylor, K.E. (Author)
EditorsSolomon, Susan, Dahe, Qin, Manning, Martin, Marquis, Melinda, Averyt, Kristen, Tignor, Melinda M. B., Miller, Henry LeRoy and Chen, Zhenlin
Page Range589-662
Chapter Number8
Number of Pages74
Year2007
PublisherCambridge University Press
Place of PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN9780521880091
Web Address (URL)https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-chapter8-1.pdf
Abstract

This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate
models used elsewhere in this report for projecting future
climate change. Confi dence in model estimates of future climate evolution has been enhanced via a range of advances since the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR).

Keywordsclimate change
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020370202. Climatology
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Published for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Journal TitleClimate change 2007: The physical science basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (FAR)
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
Byline AffiliationsNo affiliation
Sorbonne University, France
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
No affiliation
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States
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