Initiation of a Marinoan Snowball Earth in a state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

We study the initiation of a Marinoan Snowball Earth (~635 million years before present) with the state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation model ECHAM5/MPI-OM. This is the most sophisticated model ever applied to Snowball initiation. A comparison with a pre-industrial control climate sh...

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Main Authors: A. Voigt, D. S. Abbot, R. T. Pierrehumbert, J. Marotzke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2011-03-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/7/249/2011/cp-7-249-2011.pdf