The importance of ice vertical resolution for snowball climate and deglaciation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 6100-6109

  Abbot, Dorian S ^a   Eisenman, Ian ^b   Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Ice age; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATIONS; E-FOLDING; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; ICE AGE; PERIODIC SIGNAL; SEA ICE MODELS; SNOWBALL EARTH; SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DEGLACIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SNOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77957232811     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3693.1     Document Type: Article

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