Climate change of Mars-like planets due to obliquity variations: Implications for Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Nakamura, Takasumi ^a   Tajika, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; PLANETS; SOLAR RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; CLIMATIC EVOLUTION; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; MIDLATITUDES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SOLAR CONSTANT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MARS; OBLIQUITY;

EID: 0141625981     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016725     Document Type: Article

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