Thickness of tropical ice and photosynthesis on a snowball Earth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2153-2156

  McKay, C P ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; EARLY EARTH; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE;

FREEZING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TROPICS; ICE; LAKES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBLIMATION;

EUKARYOTIC ALGAE; FREEZING RATE; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; ICE-COVERED; SNOWBALL EARTH; SUBLIMATION RATES; TRANSMISSIVITY; TROPICAL REGIONS;

ICE; GEOPHYSICS;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA;

HEAT TRANSFER MODELS;

EID: 0034352774     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL008525     Document Type: Article

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