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Science 20 July 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5529, pp. 430 - 433
DOI: 10.1126/science.1062823
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Uncertainty in the IPCC's Third Assessment Report

Myles Allen,* Sarah Raper, John Mitchell

Projections of future climate change are uncertain. On the basis of the recent IPCC report, Reilly et al. and Allen et al. discuss approaches to and problems in quantifying uncertainty in future climate assessments. See also the Research Article by Wigley and Raper (p. 451).

M. Allen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK. S. Raper, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. J. Mitchell, The Met Office, London Road, Bracknell RG12 2SZ, UK.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.allen1{at}physics.ox.ac.uk

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