Faint young Sun problem more severe due to ice-albedo feedback and higher rotation rate of the early Earth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Kienert, Hendrik ^a   Feulner, Georg ^a   Petoukhov, Vladimir ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GASES; SOLAR RADIATION;

3-DIMENSIONAL; ARCHEAN; EARLY EARTH; HIGH CONCENTRATION; OCEAN SURFACES; ROTATION RATE;

EARTH (PLANET);

ALBEDO; ARCHEAN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CRITICAL STATE; EARLY EARTH; EARTH ROTATION; FREEZING; GREENHOUSE GAS; PALEOCLIMATE; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84871297948     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054381     Document Type: Article

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