Tension between reducing sea-level rise and global warming through solar-radiation management

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-100

  Irvine, P J ^a   Sriver, R L ^b   Keller, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATIVE FORCING; RISK FACTOR; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOLAR RADIATION; TENSION;

EID: 84857499499     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1351     Document Type: Article

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