How warming and steric sea level rise relate to cumulative carbon emissions
How warming and steric sea level rise relate to cumulative carbon emissions
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DOI:
10.1029/2012gl052771
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发表时间:
2012-10-13
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Woodworth, Philip L.
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作者:
Williams, Richard G.;Goodwin, Philip;Woodworth, Philip L.
Surface warming and steric sea level rise over the global ocean nearly linearly increase with cumulative carbon emissions for an atmosphere-ocean equilibrium, reached many centuries after emissions cease. Surface warming increases with cumulative emissions with a proportionality factor, Delta T-surface:2 x CO2/(I-B ln 2), ranging from 0.8 to 1.9 K (1000 PgC)(-1) for surface air temperature, depending on the climate sensitivity Delta T-surface:2 x CO2 and the buffered carbon inventory I-B. Steric sea level rise similarly increases with cumulative emissions and depends on the climate sensitivity of the bulk ocean, ranging from 0.4 K to 2.7 K; a factor 0.4 +/- 0.2 smaller than that for surface temperature based on diagnostics of two Earth System models. The implied steric sea level rise ranges from 0.7 m to 5 m for a cumulative emission of 5000 PgC, approached perhaps 500 years or more after emissions cease. Citation: Williams, R. G., P. Goodwin, A. Ridgwell, and P. L. Woodworth (2012), How warming and steric sea level rise relate to cumulative carbon emissions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L19715, doi:10.1029/2012GL052771.