Habitable planets with high obliquities

Icarus

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 254-267

  Williams, Darren M ^a   Kasting, James F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; HEAT; MOON; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; ROTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); HEAT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOON; PLANETS; ROTATION;

EID: 0031234499     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5759     Document Type: Article

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