Thickness of tropical ice and photosynthesis on a snowball Earth
On a completely ice-covered "snowball" Earth the thickness of ice in the tropical regions would be limited by the sunlight penetrating into the ice cover and by the latent heat flux generated by freezing at the ice bottom--the freezing rate would balance the sublimation rate from the top o...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Geophysical research letters. - 1984. - 27(2000), 14 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 2153-6 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Geophysical research letters |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. NASA Center ARC NASA Discipline Exobiology Ice |