Extending the relationship between global warming and cumulative carbon emissions to multi-millennial timescales

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Frölicher, Thomas L ^a   Paynter, David J ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 C warming target; Carbon budgets; Carbon dioxide emissions; CMIP5; Earth system modeling; Global warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON BUDGETS; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME-DEPENDENT TEMPERATURE;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84982058428     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/7/075002     Document Type: Article

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