Sensitivity of the modeled present-day greenland ice Sheet to climatic forcing and spin-up methods and its influence on future sea level projections

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2174-2189

  Yan, Qing ^a   Zhang, Zhongshi ^d   Gao, Yongqi ^b   Wang, Huijun ^a,c   Johannessen, Ola M ^b,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

climatic forcing; future projection; Greenland Ice Sheet; ice sheet model; spin up methods

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84892951931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20156     Document Type: Article

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