Predictability of twentieth century sea-level rise from past data

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bittermann, Klaus ^a   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^a   Perrette, Mahé ^a   Vermeer, Martin ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

climate change; model validation; projections; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

CALIBRATION PERIODS; GLOBAL SEA-LEVEL RISE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; MODEL VALIDATION; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; PROJECTIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE; TIDE GAUGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84876172505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014013     Document Type: Article

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