CO 2 evasion from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A new carbon-climate feedback

Chemical Geology

Volumn 320-321, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-95

  Ryu, Jong Sik ^a   Jacobson, Andrew D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Climate change; CO 2 evasion; Greenland Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC EQUILIBRIUM; BASAL ICE; CARBON CYCLES; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; MINERAL WEATHERING; PRECAMBRIAN; TIME-SCALES; WEST GREENLAND; WORST-CASE MODELS;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK; GAS EMISSIONS; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; RIVERS; WEATHERING;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; EMISSION INVENTORY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MELTWATER; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84862330110     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.05.024     Document Type: Article

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