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Title: Impacts of Observational Constraints Related to Sea Level on Estimates of Climate Sensitivity

Abstract

The research on the effect of observational sea-level rise constraints that would be on climate sensitivity estimates and global temperature projections. Will be using a simple global climate model.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  3. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  4. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1558384
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1735949
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-139110; PNNL-SA-142080
Journal ID: ISSN 2328-4277
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Earth's Future
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; data‐model fusion; probabilistic projections; reduced‐complexity model

Citation Formats

Vega‐Westhoff, Ben, Sriver, Ryan L., Hartin, Corinne A., Wong, Tony E., and Keller, Klaus. Impacts of Observational Constraints Related to Sea Level on Estimates of Climate Sensitivity. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1029/2018EF001082.
Vega‐Westhoff, Ben, Sriver, Ryan L., Hartin, Corinne A., Wong, Tony E., & Keller, Klaus. Impacts of Observational Constraints Related to Sea Level on Estimates of Climate Sensitivity. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF001082
Vega‐Westhoff, Ben, Sriver, Ryan L., Hartin, Corinne A., Wong, Tony E., and Keller, Klaus. Tue . "Impacts of Observational Constraints Related to Sea Level on Estimates of Climate Sensitivity". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF001082. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1558384.
@article{osti_1558384,
title = {Impacts of Observational Constraints Related to Sea Level on Estimates of Climate Sensitivity},
author = {Vega‐Westhoff, Ben and Sriver, Ryan L. and Hartin, Corinne A. and Wong, Tony E. and Keller, Klaus},
abstractNote = {The research on the effect of observational sea-level rise constraints that would be on climate sensitivity estimates and global temperature projections. Will be using a simple global climate model.},
doi = {10.1029/2018EF001082},
journal = {Earth's Future},
number = 6,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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