Bayesian inversion for reconciling uncertainties in global mass balances

Milind Kandlikar

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v49i2.15955

Bayesian inversion for reconciling uncertainties in global mass balances

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 49 (1997): Issue 2

By: Milind Kandlikar

Open Access

|Jan 1997

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