Sentences with phrase «discusses model uncertainty»

In her doctoral thesis, Pulkkinen also discusses model uncertainty (structural uncertainty), which results from the fact that the phenomenon being researched can be explained with several — even contradicting — theories.

Not exact matches

A recent study in the Journal of Environmental Management carried out by researchers at the European Forest Institute and their partners in the FP7 funded MOTIVE project (Models for Adaptive Forest Management) discusses how forest managers and decision makers can cope with climate uncertainties.

While these DCF models are commonly used, the uncertainty in these values is hardly ever discussed.

The main reason for this is the degree of uncertainties involved in regional climate modelling, as discussed in a previous post.

Analyses of tide gauge and altimetry data by Vinogradov and Ponte (2011), which indicated the presence of considerably small spatial scale variability in annual mean sea level over many coastal regions, are an important factor for understanding the uncertainties in regional sea - level simulations and projections at sub-decadal time scales in coarse - resolution climate models that are also discussed in Chapter 13.

We'd discussed a wide range of uncertainties and ambiguities, from future emissions scenarios to model uncertainty to perception and communication issues, and we were asked to comment on how, with so much uncertainty, economists can make useful recommendations.

We then review recently developed millennial - scale spherical harmonic geomagnetic field models and compare their dipole predictions to virtual axial dipole and virtual geomagnetic pole (VGP) reconstructions, discussing uncertainties in absolute values and variations.