Influence of Carbon Dioxide Clouds on Early Martian Climate

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 546-554

  Mischna, Michael A ^a   Kasting, James F ^a   Pavlov, Alex ^a   Freedman, Richard ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Climate; Extrasolar planets; Mars

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROCLIMATE; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; INFRARED RAYS; MARS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0034200546     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6380     Document Type: Article

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