Climate Modeling
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Academy of Sciences Primer on Climate
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CMIP5 Project
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WCRP
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CMIP5
Modeling centers and Models
Observed data sets
A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, B.
Rudolf, K. Schamm, U. Schneider, and M. Ziese 2013: A description of the global
land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation
Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend)
analysis from 1901-present
in Earth System Science Data, 5(1)
pp.71-99. DOI: 10.5194/essd-5-71-2013
Rayner,
N.A., P.Brohan, D.E.Parker,
C.K.Folland, J.J.Kennedy, M.Vanicek, T.Ansell and S.F.B.Tett 2006: Improved
analyses of changes and uncertainties in sea surface temperature measured in
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K. Matsuura and C. J. Willmott 2012: Terrestrial Air
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