Different magnitudes of projected subsurface ocean warming around Greenland and Antarctica

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 524-528

  Yin, Jianjun ^a   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^b   Hu, Aixue ^c   Russell, Joellen L ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER FLOW; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE FLOW; ICE MECHANICS; ICE SHEET; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 79960774278     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1189     Document Type: Article

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