Constraining the ratio of global warming to cumulative CO2 emissions using CMIP5 simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 6844-6858

  Gillett, Nathan P ^a   Arora, Vivek K ^a   Matthews, Damon ^b   Allen, Myles R ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; CLIMATE RESPONSE; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS;

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 84881187423     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00476.1     Document Type: Article

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