Information on the early Holocene climate constrains the summer sea ice projections for the 21st century

The summer sea ice extent strongly decreased in the Arctic over the last decades. This decline is very likely to continue in the future but uncertainty of projections is very large. An ensemble of experiments with the climate model LOVECLIM using 5 different parameter sets has been performed to show...

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Main Authors: H. Goosse, E. Driesschaert, T. Fichefet, M.-F. Loutre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2007-12-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/3/683/2007/cp-3-683-2007.pdf