Role of model initialization for projections of 21st-century Greenland ice sheet mass loss

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 60, Issue 222, 2014, Pages 782-794

  Adalgeirsdottir G ^a,d   Aschwanden, A ^b   Khroulev, C ^b   Boberg, F ^a   Mottram, R ^a   Lucas Picher, P ^c   Christensen, J H ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Ice and climate; Ice sheet modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE SHEET; MASS MOVEMENT; MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84909996017     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2014JoG13J202     Document Type: Article

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