The adventures of climate science in the sweet land of idle arguments

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2016.02.001MaRDI QIDQ291133zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eric Winsberg, William Mark Goodwin

Publication date 6 June 2016

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.02.001

zbMATH Keywords

chaosclimate sciencemodelsnon-linear science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of mathematical modeling (00A71) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Modeling and interdisciplinarity (aspects of mathematics education) (97M10)

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