Refugium for surface life on Snowball Earth in a nearly enclosed sea? A numerical solution for sea-glacier invasion through a narrow strait

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2679-2690

  Campbell, Adam J ^a   Waddington, Edwin D ^a   Warren, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

ice shelves; sea glaciers; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; EUKARYOTIC ORGANISMS; ICE SHELVES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTES; SNOWBALL EARTH; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ICE;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EUKARYOTE; FLOW MODELING; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE FLOW; REFUGIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBLIMATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84900522721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009703     Document Type: Article

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