Complementing thermosteric sea level rise estimates

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2723-2734

  Lorbacher, K ^a   Nauels, A ^a   Meinshausen, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEAT FLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL EXPANSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL PROFILE; VOLUME CHANGE; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 84941104896     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-2723-2015     Document Type: Article

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