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Allowable carbon emissions for medium-to-high mitigation scenarios

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 65 (2013): Issue 1
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|Jan 2013
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.20586 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 20586 - 20586
Submitted on: Feb 7, 2013
Accepted on: Sep 26, 2013
Published on: Jan 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
climate-carbon cycle system,
earth system model of intermediate complexity,
parametric uncertainty,
observational constraints,
allowable emissions,
Representative Concentration Pathways

© 2013 Kaoru Tachiiri, Julia C. Hargreaves, James D. Annan, Chris Huntingford, Michio Kawamiya, published by Stockholm University Press
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