Implications of changes in freshwater flux from the Greenland ice sheet for the climate of the 21st century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Fichefet, Thierry ^a   Poncin, Chantal ^a   Goosse, Hugues ^a   Huybrechts, Philippe ^b,c   Janssens, Ives ^b   Le Treut, Hervé ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; ICE;

ICE SHEETS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRESHWATER INPUT; ICE SHEET; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0346216924     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017826     Document Type: Article

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