Future changes in global warming potentials under representative concentration pathways

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Reisinger, Andy ^a   Meinshausen, Malte ^b   Manning, Martin ^c  

^a New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre   (New Zealand)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

climate change metrics; global warming potential; GWPs; multi gas mitigation strategies; RCPs; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960327958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024020     Document Type: Article

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