CO2 levels required for deglaciation of a "Near-Snowball" Earth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 283-286

  Crowley, Thomas J ^a   Hyde, William T ^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

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYSTERESIS; ICE; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; TROPICS;

COUPLED MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOCHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; HYSTERESIS PROPERTIES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SNOWBALL EARTH;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOPHYSICS;

DEGLACIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE SHEET; OPEN WATER SOLUTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEGLACIATION; EARLY EARTH; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 0035862101     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011836     Document Type: Article

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