SeaRISE experiments revisited: Potential sources of spread in multi-model projections of the Greenland ice sheet

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-63

  Saito, F ^a   Abe Ouchi, A ^a,b   Takahashi, K ^a   Blatter, H ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 85009395398     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-43-2016     Document Type: Article

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