Journal article
Evaluating climate models with an African lens
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Climate models are becoming evermore complex and increasingly relied upon to inform climate change adaptation. Yet progress in model development is lagging behind in many of the regions that need the information most, including in Africa. Targeted model development for Africa is crucial and so too is targeted model evaluation. Assessment of model performance in specific regions often follows a “validation” approach, focusing on mean biases, but if models are to be improved, it is important to...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0090.1
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Department for International Development
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Natural Environment Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Meteorological Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Journal website
- Volume:
- 99
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 313–336
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-01
- DOI:
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1520-0477
- ISSN:
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0003-0007
- Source identifiers:
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702866
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pubs:702866
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uuid:39a0bda6-dded-4df5-ad6b-8455c8f62989
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- pubs:702866
- Deposit date:
- 2017-07-03
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- Copyright holder:
- American Meteorological Society
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 American Meteorological Society. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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