Investigating plausible mechanisms to trigger a deglaciation from a hard snowball Earth

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 274-287

  Le Hir, Guillaume ^a   Ramstein, Gilles ^a   Donnadieu, Yannick ^a   Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

CH4; Cloudiness; CO2; Deglaciation; Greenhouse effect; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLOUD COVER; DEGLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE COVER; METHANE; SNOW;

EID: 34247170821     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2006.09.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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