Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-87

  Gillett, Nathan P ^a   Arora, Vivek K ^a   Zickfeld, Kirsten ^a   Marshall, Shawn J ^b   Merryfield, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; ICE SHEET; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MITIGATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79551576478     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1047     Document Type: Article

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