Maximum warming occurs about one decade after a carbon dioxide emission

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Ricke, Katharine L ^a   Caldeira, Ken ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropogenic climate change; carbon dioxide emission; model intercomparisons

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CURRENT GENERATION; FUTURE GENERATIONS; MODEL INTERCOMPARISONS; OCEAN THERMALS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

EID: 84919667751     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124002     Document Type: Article

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