Uncertainty in twenty-first-century CMIP5 sea level projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 838-852

  Little, Christopher M ^a,b   Horton, Radley M ^c   Kopp, Robert E ^d   Oppenheimer, Michael ^a   Yip, Stan ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d USA   (United States)

^e HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921668262     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00453.1     Document Type: Article

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