Climate modification by future ice sheet changes and consequences for ice sheet mass balance

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-324

  Vizcaino M ^a,b   Mikolajewicz, U ^a   Jungclaus, J ^a   Schurgers, G ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Earth system modelling; Feedbacks in the climate system; Ice sheets; Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE SHEET; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77949275256     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0591-y     Document Type: Article

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