Upper bounds on twenty-first-century Antarctic ice loss assessed using a probabilistic framework

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 654-659

  Little, Christopher M ^a   Oppenheimer, Michael ^a,b   Urban, Nathan M ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84879743467     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1845     Document Type: Article

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