Dynamics of a snowball earth ocean

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7439, 2013, Pages 90-93

  Ashkenazy, Yosef ^a   Gildor, Hezi ^b   Losch, Martin ^c   Macdonald, Francis A ^d   Schrag, Daniel P ^d,e   Tziperman, Eli ^d,e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; HEAT FLUX; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE COVER; IRON; MELTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; ICE COVER; MELTING POINT; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEA; SEA ICE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; HISTORY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

SEA WATER; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERE; EARTH (PLANET); HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874728671     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11894     Document Type: Letter

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