Polar ice sheets and global sea level: How well can we predict the future?

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 165-194

  Van der Veen, C J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global sea level; Mass balance models; Polar ice sheets

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; MODEL VALIDATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND;

EID: 0037091235     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(01)00140-0     Document Type: Article

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