Neoproterozoic 'snowball earth' simulations with a coupled climate/ice- sheet model

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6785, 2000, Pages 425-429

  Hyde, William T ^a   Crowley, Thomas J ^a   Baum, Steven K ^a   Peltier, W Richard ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; ICE SHEET; MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC; REFUGE; SNOW COVER; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION; ICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SNOW;

EID: 0034713446     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35013005     Document Type: Article

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