The Greenland Ice Sheet response to transient climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3469-3483

  Ren, Diandong ^a,c   Fu, Rong ^a   Leslie, Lance M ^b,c   Chen, Jianli ^d   Wilson, Clark R ^a,d   Karoly, David J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Ice sheets

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BASAL LAYER; BASAL SLIDING; BOTTOM ICE; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; DYNAMIC BALANCE; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GRANULAR SEDIMENTS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE FLOW; ICE MASS; ICE SHEETS; ICE SURFACES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MASS LOSS; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MODELING SYSTEMS; NEW MODEL; NONLOCAL; RAPID-HEATING; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE FLOW; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TRANSIENT CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; DYNAMICS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAVITATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEATING; ICE; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; GRACE; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE FLOW; ICE MECHANICS; ICE SHEET; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 79960311899     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3708.1     Document Type: Article

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