An open ocean region in Neoproterozoic glaciations would have to be narrow to allow equatorial ice sheets

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5503-5507

  Rodehacke, Christian B ^a   Voigt, Aiko ^b   Ziemen, Florian ^c   Abbot, Dorian S ^d  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

ice sheet modeling; Neoproterozoic glaciations; snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELS; NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATIONS; OCEAN MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SNOWBALL EARTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ABLATION; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; OPEN OCEAN; PROTEROZOIC; SEA ICE; SNOW;

EID: 84885961882     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057582     Document Type: Article

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