Testing paleogeographic controls on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 10-1-10-4

  Poulsen, Christopher J ^a   Jacob, Robert L ^b   Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^c   Huynh, Tran T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

DEEP-WATER FORMATION; SEA-SURFACE COOLING;

GEOPHYSICS;

ICE COVER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 0036624218     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014352     Document Type: Article

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