Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing
Includes bibliographical references (p. 3).
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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
2003
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/36382019-04-10T09:30:14Z Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing Sokolov, Andrei P. Stone, Peter H. QC981.8.C5 M58 no.11 Includes bibliographical references (p. 3). Abstract 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/). The 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. 2003-10-24T14:57:50Z 2003-10-24T14:57:50Z 1996-09 no. 11 http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a11 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3638 eng Report no. 11 7 p. 82221 bytes application/pdf application/pdf MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change |
| spellingShingle | QC981.8.C5 M58 no.11 Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing |
| title | Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing |
| title_full | Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing |
| title_fullStr | Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing |
| title_short | Global warming projections : sensitivity to deep ocean mixing |
| title_sort | global warming projections sensitivity to deep ocean mixing |
| topic | QC981.8.C5 M58 no.11 |
| url | http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a11 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3638 |