Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

[HTML][HTML] Climate and ocean circulation in the aftermath of a Marinoan snowball Earth

L Ramme, J Marotzke - Climate of the Past, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
When a snowball Earth deglaciates through a very high atmospheric CO 2 concentration,
the resulting inflow of freshwater leads to a stably stratified ocean, and the strong …

Equable end Mesoproterozoic climate in the absence of high CO2

RP Fiorella, ND Sheldon - Geology, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Proterozoic Eon (2500–542 Ma) appears to have been a warm period
bookended by glaciations, despite a 5%–18% reduction in solar output compared to modern …

Thresholds for Paleozoic ice sheet initiation

DP Lowry, CJ Poulsen, DE Horton, TH Torsvik… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Continental drift and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have each, in turn, been
proposed to explain the evolution of Paleozoic climate from early era ice-free conditions to …

Ice, fire, or fizzle: The climate footprint of Earth's supercontinental cycles

AM Jellinek, A Lenardic… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Supercontinent assembly and breakup can influence the rate and global extent to which
insulated and relatively warm subcontinental mantle is mixed globally, potentially …

Terrestrial evaporation and global climate: Lessons from Northland, a planet with a hemispheric continent

MM Laguë, M Pietschnig, S Ragen, TA Smith… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Motivated by the hemispheric asymmetry of land distribution on Earth, we explore the
climate of Northland, a highly idealized planet with a Northern Hemisphere continent and a …

Climate responses to the splitting of a supercontinent: implications for the breakup of Pangea

CR Tabor, R Feng… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructing deep time climate often relies on a limited number of data points, which can
hinder inference of the large‐scale climate state. Here we use an Earth system model with …

Evaluating key parameters for the initiation of a Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth with a single Earth System Model of intermediate complexity

TC Spiegl, H Paeth, HE Frimmel - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Even after more than two decades of intense research the main drivers for a potential
Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth continue to be discussed controversially. In this study we …

Strong effects of tropical ice-sheet coverage and thickness on the hard snowball Earth bifurcation point

Y Liu, WR Peltier, J Yang, G Vettoretti, Y Wang - Climate Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
The hard snowball Earth bifurcation point is determined by the level of atmospheric carbon
dioxide concentration (p CO 2) below which complete glaciation of the planet would occur …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of surface topography on the critical carbon dioxide level required for the formation of a modern Snowball Earth

Y Liu, WR Peltier, J Yang, Y Hu - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Influence of Surface Topography on the Critical Carbon Dioxide Level Required for the
Formation of a Modern Snowball Earth in: Journal of Climate Volume 31 Issue 20 (2018) …