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Nature 407, 571-572 (5 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35036659

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Uncertainty in climate change

Andrew J. Weaver & Francis W. Zwiers1

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Climate modelling has produced varying projections of possible global rises in temperature. A simple statistical method brings several such projections into closer agreement and includes an indication of potential accuracy.

Governments around the world are investing heavily in coupled-climate models to project future climate change. Such models have interacting atmosphere, ocean, land and sea-ice components, and serve as laboratories for studying the effects of natural and human influences on the climate system.

  1. Francis W. Zwiers is at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Meteorological Service of Canada, c/o University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2, Canada.

Correspondence to: Andrew J. Weaver Andrew J. Weaver is at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, PO Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P6, Canada .
e-mail: Email: weaver@uvic.ca