Transient response of the MOC and climate to potential melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 21st century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Hu, Aixue ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Han, Weiqing ^b   Yin, Jianjun ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH LATITUDES; NORTH ATLANTIC; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; TRANSIENT RESPONSE;

GLACIERS; MODEL STRUCTURES; SEA LEVEL;

MELTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; MELTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA LEVEL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 67651121522     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037998     Document Type: Article

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