Overestimate of committed warming

Nature

Volumn 547, Issue 7662, 2017, Pages E16-E17

  Schmidt, Gavin A ^a   Severinghaus, Jeff ^b   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^c,d   Alley, Richard B ^e   Broecker, Wallace ^f   Brook, Ed ^g   Etheridge, David ^h   Kawamura, Kenji ^d,i,j   Keeling, Ralph F ^b   Leinen, Margaret ^b   Marvel, Kate ^a,k   Stocker, Thomas F ^l  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CSIRO   (Australia)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^j GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^k Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; DUST; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIAL PERIOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VEGETATION;

EID: 85024397035     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature22803     Document Type: Short Survey

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