The faint young Sun problem

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Feulner, Georg ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIQUID METHANE; METHANE;

ARCHEAN; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; EARLY EARTH; EARTH'S CLIMATE; LIQUID SURFACE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; STELLAR EVOLUTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARCHEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE MODELING; EARLY EARTH; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; PALEOCLIMATE;

EID: 84861657914     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RG000375     Document Type: Article

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