Antarctic ice-sheet melting provides negative feedbacks on future climate warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Swingedouw, D ^a   Fichefet, T ^a   Huybrechts, P ^b   Goosse, H ^a   Driesschaert, E ^a   Loutre, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATERS; ANTARCTIC ICES; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE MODELS; FUTURE CLIMATES; ICE COVERS; LOCAL SURFACES; NEGATIVE FEEDBACKS; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; POLAR ICE SHEETS; SEA-LEVEL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOUTHERN OCEANS; SURFACE ALBEDOS; TIME SCALES;

ICE;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HALOCLINE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; MELTING; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 57049169780     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034410     Document Type: Article

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