Carbon choices determine US cities committed to futures below sea level

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

Volumn 112, Issue 44, 2015, Pages 13508-13513

  Strauss, Benjamin H ^a   Kulp, Scott ^a   Levermann, Anders ^b,c  

^a Climate Central   (United States)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate impacts; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOME; ICE SHEET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON; CITIES; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL PARAMETER MONITORING; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946600438     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1511186112     Document Type: Article

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