Oceanographers' contribution to climate modelling and prediction: Progress to date and a future perspective

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1980, 2012, Pages 5656-5681

  Shuckburgh, Emily F ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Earth system science; Oceanography

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL;

COUPLED PROCESS; CYROSPHERE; EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; OBSERVATIONAL RESEARCH; OCEAN MODELLING; SEA LEVEL RISE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84870045427     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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