The sea level response to external forcings in historical simulations of CMIP5 climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 8521-8539

  Slangen, Aimée B A ^a   Church, John A ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^a   Monselesan, Didier P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA LEVEL; VOLCANOES;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; REGIONAL SEA LEVEL CHANGES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURFACE WIND; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84946217940     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0376.1     Document Type: Article

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