Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity

Recently, a lot of effort has been put into estimating possible near-future changes (say, 10-100 years) in the Earth's abiotic system, especially changes induced by human activities. One of the most studied issues is the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming and the corresponding change...

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Main Authors: Makarynskyy, Oleg, Kuhn, Michael, Featherstone, Will
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Springer Verlag 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28825
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Kuhn, Michael
Featherstone, Will
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Featherstone, Will
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description Recently, a lot of effort has been put into estimating possible near-future changes (say, 10-100 years) in the Earth's abiotic system, especially changes induced by human activities. One of the most studied issues is the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming and the corresponding change in sea-level around the world due to the associated de-glaciation. On a longer time-scale (>100 years), however, such climatic changes will affect the grav-ity field, location of the geocentre, and the Earth's rotation vector. In this study, the University of Victoria's (Canada) coupled Earth System Climate Model of intermediate complexity was implemented. The model was used to predict changes in global precipitation, ocean mass redistribution, and seawater salinity and temperature on timescales from hundreds to thousands years under two different greenhouse-warming scenarios. In future, the projected changes will be assimilated into an existing Synthetic Earth Gravity Model to determine the corresponding changes to the location of the geo-centre, the Earth's rotation vector, and the geoid.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-288252017-01-30T13:07:37Z Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity Makarynskyy, Oleg Kuhn, Michael Featherstone, Will greenhouse gas scenario Earth system model sea-level change global warming Recently, a lot of effort has been put into estimating possible near-future changes (say, 10-100 years) in the Earth's abiotic system, especially changes induced by human activities. One of the most studied issues is the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming and the corresponding change in sea-level around the world due to the associated de-glaciation. On a longer time-scale (>100 years), however, such climatic changes will affect the grav-ity field, location of the geocentre, and the Earth's rotation vector. In this study, the University of Victoria's (Canada) coupled Earth System Climate Model of intermediate complexity was implemented. The model was used to predict changes in global precipitation, ocean mass redistribution, and seawater salinity and temperature on timescales from hundreds to thousands years under two different greenhouse-warming scenarios. In future, the projected changes will be assimilated into an existing Synthetic Earth Gravity Model to determine the corresponding changes to the location of the geo-centre, the Earth's rotation vector, and the geoid. 2004 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28825 Springer Verlag fulltext
spellingShingle greenhouse gas scenario
Earth system model
sea-level change
global warming
Makarynskyy, Oleg
Kuhn, Michael
Featherstone, Will
Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity
title Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity
title_full Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity
title_fullStr Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity
title_full_unstemmed Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity
title_short Modelling Future Sea-level Change under Green-house Warming Scenarios with an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity
title_sort modelling future sea-level change under green-house warming scenarios with an earth system model of intermediate complexity
topic greenhouse gas scenario
Earth system model
sea-level change
global warming
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28825