Climate change impacts are sensitive to the concentration stabilization path

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

Volumn 101, Issue 47, 2004, Pages 16411-16416

  O'Neill, Brian C ^a,b   Oppenheimer, Michael ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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CARBON DIOXIDE;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 9344262917     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405522101     Document Type: Article

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