Modelling Antarctic and Greenland volume changes during the 20th and 21st centuries forced by GCM time slice integrations

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 42, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 83-105

  Huybrechts, Philippe ^a,b   Gregory, Jonathan ^c,d   Janssens, Ives ^b   Wild, Martin ^e  

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

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Greenhouse warming; Mass balance; Numerical modeling; Polar ice sheets; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 3242670899     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2003.11.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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