GCM simulations of Snowball Earth conditions during the late Proterozoic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2263-2266

  Jenkins, Gregory S ^a,b   Smith, Steven R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 503 Walker Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREEZING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE; SEA ICE;

OCEAN; POLEWARD TRANSPORT; PROTEROZOIC; SNOWBALL EARTH CONDITIONS;

SNOW; CARBON DIOXIDE;

PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CRITICAL FACTORS; CRITICAL VALUE; SNOWBALL EARTH; SOLAR CONSTANT; SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES; TRANSPORT OF HEAT;

EID: 0033431768     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900538     Document Type: Article

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