How much climate change can be avoided by mitigation?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Washington, Warren M ^a   Knùtti, Reto ^b   Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Teng, Haiyan ^a   Tebaldi, Claudia ^c   Lawrence, David ^a   Buja, Lawrence ^a   Strand, Warren G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c Climate Central   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; EMISSION REDUCTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HEAT WAVES; LOW EMISSION; PERMAFROST AREA; POLICY DECISIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE;

CLIMATOLOGY; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; MITIGATION; PERMAFROST; SEA ICE;

EID: 67449116057     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL037074     Document Type: Article

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