Figure 27: Response of the
Greenland ice sheet to three climatic warming scenarios during the third millennium
expressed in equivalent changes of global sea level. The curve labels refer to
the mean temperature rise over Greenland by 3000 AD as predicted by two-dimensional
climate and ocean model forced by greenhouse gas concen-tration rises until 2130
AD and kept constant after that. Note that projected temperatures over Greenland
are generally greater globally averaged temperatures by a factor of 1.2 to 3.1
for the models used in Chapter
11. [Based on Figure
11.16]
