Initiation of a Marinoan snowball earth in a state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 249-263

  Voigt, A ^a,b   Abbot, D S ^c   Pierrehumbert, R T ^c   Marotzke, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE COVER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE;

EID: 79952610700     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-249-2011     Document Type: Article

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