Evaluating global warming potentials with historical temperature

Climatic Change

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 443-466

  Tanaka, Katsumasa ^a,b,c   O'Neill, Brian C ^a,d   Rokityanskiy, Dmitry ^a,e   Obersteiner, Michael ^a   Tol, Richard S J ^a,f,g,h,i  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^g INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^h VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; CARBON CYCLES; CLIMATE MODEL; EARTH SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; INVERSE ESTIMATION; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE PROJECTION; TEMPERATURE PROXY; TIME HORIZONS; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

EID: 71349087546     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9566-6     Document Type: Article

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