Implications of potentially lower climate sensitivity on climate projections and policy

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Rogelj, Joeri ^a,b   Meinshausen, Malte ^c,d   Sedláček, Jan ^a   Knutti, Reto ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS; FUTURE GENERATIONS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE THRESHOLDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLICY MAKING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

EID: 84897477758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/031003     Document Type: Article

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