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Research article
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16 May 2012
Research article |
| 16 May 2012
The initiation of modern soft and hard Snowball Earth climates in CCSM4
J. Yang
formerly at: Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
W. R. Peltier
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Y. Hu
Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Ocean Circulation under Globally Glaciated Snowball Earth Conditions: Steady-State Solutions Y. Ashkenazy et al. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-086.1
- Strong effects of tropical ice-sheet coverage and thickness on the hard snowball Earth bifurcation point Y. Liu et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3278-1
- Snowball Earth Initiation and the Thermodynamics of Sea Ice J. Hörner et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002734
- Effect of Sea-ice Drift on the Onset of Snowball Climate on Rapidly Rotating Aqua-planets W. Yue & J. Yang https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aba264
- The Onset of a Globally Ice‐Covered State for a Land Planet T. Kodama et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006975
- Initiation of Snowball Earth with volcanic sulfur aerosol emissions F. Macdonald & R. Wordsworth https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072335
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- Abrupt climate transition of icy worlds from snowball to moist or runaway greenhouse J. Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2994
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