The impact of Greenland melt on local sea levels: A partially coupled analysis of dynamic and static equilibrium effects in idealized water-hosing experiments

Climatic Change

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 619-625

  Kopp, Robert E ^a,b   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^c   Griffies, Stephen M ^d   Yin, Jianjun ^e   Hay, Carling C ^f   Stouffer, Ronald J ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AAAS   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED ANALYSIS; CURRENT RATE; DYNAMIC VARIABILITY; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LEVEL MODEL; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; MELT RATE; NORTH ATLANTIC; ROTATIONAL EFFECTS; SALINITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; STATIC EQUILIBRIUM;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; GRAVITATION;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 78149496235     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9935-1     Document Type: Letter

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