Photochemical and climate consequences of sulfur outgassing on early Mars

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 412-418

  Tian, Feng ^a   Claire, Mark W ^b   Haqq Misra, Jacob D ^c   Smith, Megan ^c   Crisp, David C ^d   Catling, David ^b   Zahnle, Kevin ^e   Kasting, James F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Mars climate sulfur photochemistry

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT MARS; EARLY MARS CLIMATE SULFUR PHOTOCHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE WARMING; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; MARS CLIMATE; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES;

AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; GREENHOUSES; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SULFUR;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR; WARMING;

EID: 77953722516     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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