Catalogue of abrupt shifts in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate models

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 43, 2015, Pages E5777-E5786

  Drijfhout, Sybren ^a,b   Bathiany, Sebastian ^c,d   Beaulieu, Claudie ^b   Brovkin, Victor ^d   Claussen, Martin ^d,e   Huntingford, Chris ^f   Scheffer, Marten ^c   Sgubin, Giovanni ^g   Swingedouw, Didier ^h  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GOVERNMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN; MODEL; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SCREENING; SEA; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER;

EID: 84945343052     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1511451112     Document Type: Article

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