Climate Change in Portugal


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Interpolation

Interpolation: The process of estimating unknown data values that lie between known values. Various interpolation techniques exist. One of the simplest is linear interpolation, which assumes a constant rate of change between two points. Unknown values anywhere between these two points can then be assigned.

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international organization founded by the United Nations that tries to predict the impact of the greenhouse effect according to existing climate models and literature information. The Panel consists of more than 2500 scientific and technical experts from more than 60 countries all over the world. It is therefore referred to as the largest peer-reviewed scientific cooperation project in history.

IPCC, 2013: Annex III: Glossary [Planton, S. (ed.)]. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.