GCM sensitivity test using increased rotation rate, reduced solar forcing and orography to examine low latitude glaciation in the Neoproterozoic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3525-3528

  Jenkins, Gregory S ^a   Frakes, Larry A ^b,c  

^a 503 Walker Building ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Earth System Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); GLACIATION; SOLAR CONSTANT; CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; TIME-VARYING SEA SURFACE; WESTERN REGION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 0032531368     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL52588     Document Type: Article

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