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Research article
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14 Nov 2013
Research article |
| 14 Nov 2013
The initiation of Neoproterozoic "snowball" climates in CCSM3: the influence of paleocontinental configuration
Y. Liu
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada
now at: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 410a Robertson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
W. R. Peltier
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada
J. Yang
Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
now at: The Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
G. Vettoretti
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Climate and ocean circulation changes toward a modern snowball Earth T. Obase et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-845-2026
- A Review of the Neoproterozoic Global Glaciations and a Biotic Cause of Them J. Casado https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-021-00258-x
- 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
- On the Sensitivity of the Devonian Climate to Continental Configuration, Vegetation Cover, Orbital Configuration, CO 2 Concentration, and Insolation J. Brugger et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003562
- Climate Change of over 20 °C Induced by Continental Movement on a Synchronously Rotating Exoplanet Z. Zhao et al. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abebe6
- Formation of most of our coal brought Earth close to global glaciation G. Feulner https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712062114
- Climatologie comparée des planètes : un bref état des connaissances O. Planchon https://doi.org/10.4267/climatologie.1255
- Large true polar wander in a sea level model with application to the Neoproterozoic snowball Earth events Y. Liu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.032
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