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The Martian climate revisited

Springer Verlag, 2004

Authors:

Peter L Read, Stephen R Lewis

Abstract:

latest techniques of atmospheric modelling, The Martian Climate Revisited provides a comprehensive summary of our knowledge and current understanding of the meteorology and climate of Mars from the viewpoint of atmospheric scientists .

The effect of a global dust storm on simulations of the Martian water cycle -: art. no. L22702

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 31:22 (2004) ARTN L22702

Authors:

HM Böttger, SR Lewis, PL Read, F Forget
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Upper atmosphere of Mars up to 120 km:: Mars Global Surveyor accelerometer data analysis with the LMD general circulation model -: art. no. E01011

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 109:E1 (2004) ARTN E01011

Authors:

MAI Coll, F Forget, MA López-Valverde, PL Read, SR Lewis
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Glacial flow of floating marine ice in “Snowball Earth”

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans American Geophysical Union (AGU) 108:C10 (2003) 2002JC001471

Authors:

Jason C Goodman, Raymond T Pierrehumbert

Abstract:

Simulations of frigid Neoproterozoic climates have not considered the tendency of thick layers of floating marine ice to deform and spread laterally. We have constructed a simple model of the production and flow of marine ice on a planetary scale, and determined ice thickness and flow in two situations: when the ocean is globally ice‐covered (“hard snowball”) and when the tropical waters remain open (“soft snowball”). In both cases, ice flow strongly affects the distribution of marine ice. Flowing ice probably carries enough latent heat and freshwater to significantly affect the transition into a Snowball Earth climate. We speculate that flowing marine ice, rather than continental ice sheets, may be the erosive agent that created some Neoproterozoic glacial deposits.
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Erratum: Decay of passive scalars under the action of single scale smooth velocity fields in bounded two-dimensional domains - From non-self-similar probability distribution functions to self-similar eigenmodes (Physical Review E (2002) 66 (056302))

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 68:1 2 (2003) 199031

Authors:

J Sukhatme, RT Pierrehumbert