Response of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to Multi-Millennial Greenhouse Warming in the Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity LOVECLIM

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 397-416

  Huybrechts, P ^a   Goelzer, H ^a   Janssens, I ^a   Driesschaert, E ^b   Fichefet, T ^b   Goosse, H ^b   Loutre, M F ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

EMIC; Ice sheets; Ice climate interactions; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES; ATMOSPHERIC CO; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EMIC; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; GREENHOUSE WARMING; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; GROUNDING LINE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ICE LOSS; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEETS; INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; OCEAN MODEL; POLAR REGIONS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE MELTING; THERMAL INERTIA; THERMO-MECHANICAL; VOLUME LOSS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; MELTING; SEA LEVEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ICE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE SHEET; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 80053197303     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9131-5     Document Type: Article

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