Increasing temperature forcing reduces the Greenland Ice Sheet’s response time scale

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 2001-2011

  Applegate, Patrick J ^a   Parizek, Byron R ^b   Nicholas, Robert E ^a   Alley, Richard B ^a   Keller, Klaus ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaciology; Greenland ice sheet; Ice sheet modeling; Sea level; Semi empirical

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; GIS; GLACIOLOGY; ICE SHEET; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84943813571     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2451-7     Document Type: Article

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