Upper limit for sea level projections by 2100

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Jevrejeva, S ^a   Grinsted, A ^b   Moore, J C ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

climate change; high end projections; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

HIGH END PROJECTIONS; SEA LEVEL RISE; UPPER LIMITS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84907893179     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104008     Document Type: Article

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