Long-term ice sheet-climate interactions under anthropogenic greenhouse forcing simulated with a complex Earth System Model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 665-690

  Vizcaíno, Miren ^a,b   Mikolajewicz, Uwe ^a   Gröger, Matthias ^a,c   Maier Reimer, Ernst ^a   Schurgers, Guy ^a,d   Winguth, Arne M E ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Earth system modelling; Ice sheets; Meridional overturning circulation; Sea level

Indexed keywords

AIR-ICE INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 52549089950     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0369-7     Document Type: Article

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