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dc.contributorSokolov, Andrei P.en_US
dc.contributorStone, Peter H.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2003-10-24T14:57:50Z
dc.date.available2003-10-24T14:57:50Z
dc.date.issued1996-09en_US
dc.identifier.otherno. 11en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a11en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3638
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 3).en_US
dc.descriptionAbstract in HTML and technical report in HTML and PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/).en_US
dc.description.abstractThe climatological impact of increases in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, despite being a subject of intensive study in recent years, is still very uncertain. One major uncertainty affecting possible climate change that has not received enough attention is the uncertainty in heat uptake by the deep ocean. We analyze the influence of this process and its uncertainty on climate predictions by means of numerical simulations with a 2-dimensional climate model. In the case of high climate sensitivity, as a result of uncertainty in deep ocean heat uptake, there is more than a factor of two uncertainty in the predicted increase of surface temperature. The corresponding uncertainty in the sea level rise due to thermal expansion is much larger than the uncertainty in the predicted temperature change and is significant even in the case of low climate sensitivity.en_US
dc.format.extent7 p.en_US
dc.format.extent82221 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Changeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesReport no. 11en_US
dc.subject.lccQC981.8.C5 M58 no.11en_US
dc.titleGlobal warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixingen_US


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