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...

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Publié dans:Geophysical research letters. - 1984. - 27(2000), 14 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 2153-6
Auteur principal: McKay, C P (Autre)
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: 2000
Accès à la collection:Geophysical research letters
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. NASA Center ARC NASA Discipline Exobiology Ice
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