Modeled Arctic sea ice evolution through 2300 in CMIP5 extended RCPs

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1195-1204

  Hezel, P J ^a,b   Fichefet, T ^a   Massonnet, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; SIMULATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84904326210     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-1195-2014     Document Type: Article

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