Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7136, 2007, Pages 646-649

  Fenton, Lori K ^a   Geissler, Paul E ^c   Haberle, Robert M ^b  

^a Carl Sagan Center   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; DUST DEVIL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND STRESS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WIND;

EID: 34247186998     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05718     Document Type: Article

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