Explaining the spread in global mean thermosteric sea level rise in CMIP5 climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 9918-9940

  Melet, Angélique ^a   Meyssignac, Benoit ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climate change; Climate models; Energy budget balance; Model evaluation performance; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL EXPANSION;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; ENERGY BUDGET/BALANCE; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 84957651968     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0200.1     Document Type: Article

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