The multimillennial sea-level commitment of global warming

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 13745-13750

  Levermann, Anders ^a,b   Clark, Peter U ^c   Marzeion, Ben ^d   Milne, Glenn A ^e   Pollard, David ^f   Radic, Valentina ^g   Robinson, Alexander ^h,i  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate impacts; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; GLACIER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATION; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TIME; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE COVER; SEA; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

SEA WATER;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84882750887     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219414110     Document Type: Article

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