Carbon dioxide warming of the early earth

AMBIO

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-16

  Arrhenius, Gustaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSICS; REVIEW; SOLAR ENERGY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MARS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSICS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; VENUS;

ARRHENIUS, S.; ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARLY EARTH; WARMING;

ARRHENIUS;

EID: 0030620730     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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48. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration supported this work with grants that are gratefully acknowledged. I wish to thank Professor Henning Rodhe and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for inviting me to participate in the Academy's Centenary Symposium, "Svante Arrhenius and the Greenhouse Effect," 9-10 April 1996.1 am also indebted to Dr. Elisabeth Crawford and two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments and suggestions; special thanks are due to Professor James F. Kasting for providing the illustrations and valuable discussion.