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How will polar climate respond to continued global warming?
Posted on August 24th, 2009Categorized as Climate, Earth System, Interdisciplinary Tagged as climate model, global warming, ice sheets, polar regions, sea level
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Current climate models do not adequately simulate the behaviour of the climate at the poles (a) because they are based largely on tropical to mid-latitude processes, and (b) because they ignore the effects of changing ozone through time. Without improvements in polar climate models we shall be unable to provide any adequate projection of the decay of ice sheets and their contribution to sea level rise.
