Toward a physically plausible upper bound of sea-level rise projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 893-902

  Sriver, Ryan L ^a   Urban, Nathan M ^b   Olson, Roman ^c   Keller, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; DEEP OCEAN; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; PORT OF LOS ANGELES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELING; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; UPPER BOUND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL EXPANSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FLOODS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FLOODING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; KINEMATICS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MELTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THERMAL EXPANSION;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868682849     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0610-6     Document Type: Article

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