An Interdisciplinary Study of Flux Adjustments in Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models
@inproceedings{Shackley1999AnIS, title={An Interdisciplinary Study of Flux Adjustments in Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models}, author={Simon Shackley and James S. Risbey and Peter H. Stone and Brian Wynne}, year={1999} }
This paper surveys and interprets the attitudes of scientists to the use of flux adjustments in climate projections with coupled Atmosphere Ocean General Circulation Models. The survey is based largely on the responses of 19 climate modellers to several questions and a discussion document circulated in 1995. We interpret the responses in terms of the following factors: the implicit assumptions which scientists hold about how the environmental policy process deals with scientific uncertainty…
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