Climate models without preindustrial volcanic forcing underestimate historical ocean thermal expansion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1600-1604

  Gregory, J M ^a,b   Bi, D ^c   Collier, M A ^c   Dix, M R ^c   Hirst, A C ^c   Hu, A ^d   Huber, M ^e   Knutti, R ^e   Marsland, S J ^c   Meinshausen, M ^f,g   Rashid, H A ^c   Rotstayn, L D ^c   Schurer, A ^h   Church, J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; ocean heat content; sea level rise; volcano

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; HISTORICAL PERIODS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; SEA LEVEL RISE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL EXPANSION;

VOLCANOES;

CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THERMAL EXPANSION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84876189453     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50339     Document Type: Article

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