Bifurcations of the climate system and greenhouse gas emissions

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

Volumn 371, Issue 1991, 2013, Pages

  Sudakov, Ivan ^a   Vakulenko, Sergey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Oberbeck Boussinesq Approximation

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); GREENHOUSE GASES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BISTABLES; CLIMATE SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS FLUXES; OBERBECK-BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; TIPPING POINT;

GAS EMISSIONS;

EID: 84876536804     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0473     Document Type: Article

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