Sentences with phrase «describe key uncertainties»

The probabilistic analyses of DAI reported in this section draw substantially on (subjective) Bayesian probabilities to describe key uncertainties in the climate system, such as climate sensitivity, the rate of oceanic heat uptake, current radiative forcing, and indirect aerosol forcing.

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The report is «Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions» (2001) and it describes the great uncertainty regarding AGW.

First, however, five key sources of uncertainty, as they relate to climate scenario construction, are very briefly described.

An interesting feature of the report is Traceable Accounts — for each major conclusion a Traceable Account is given that describes the Key Message Process, Description of evidence base, New information and remaining uncertainties, Assessment of confidence based on evidence.

Energy Commission staff has performed research on these topics and will briefly describe some of the issues and key uncertainties associated with these areas of the natural gas industry during the workshop.

Guidance developed by Moss and Schneider (2000) for the IPCC on dealing with uncertainty describes two key attributes that they argue are important in any judgment about climate change: the amount of evidence available to support the judgment being made and the degree of consensus within the scientific community about that judgment.