Sources of spread in multimodel projections of the Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1157-1175

  Yoshimori, Masakazu ^a   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feedback; Glaciers; Ice sheets; Mass fluxes transport; Meridional overturning circulation; Sea ice; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ABLATION RATES; ANTICORRELATION; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE CONDITION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL EFFECTS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH LATITUDES; ICE SHEETS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA-ICE COVER; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ABLATION; CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; MASS TRANSFER; MODELS; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA ICE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84856993398     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4011.1     Document Type: Article

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