Continued global warming after CO2 emissions stoppage

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-44

  Frölicher, Thomas Lukas ^a,b   Winton, Michael ^c   Sarmiento, Jorge Louis ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EARTH SCIENCE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BALANCE; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84890904709     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2060     Document Type: Article

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