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Goodman 2006
Goodman, J.C. (2006). Through thick and thin: Marine and meteoric ice in a “Snowball Earth” climate. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2006GL026840. issn: 0094-8276.

Marine ice cover in the frigid Neoproterozoic climate system tends to isolate the ocean: the thickness of this ice, and thus the degree of isolation, is an important unknown in geochemical and biological arguments regarding the fully-glaciated "Snowball Earth" hypothesis. The Pollard and Kasting (2005) coupled atmosphere/ice model has been modified to track ice of marine and atmospheric origin separately, and model their different optical properties. In contrast to Pollard and Kasting's results, a tropical region of thin ice is not stable in this model: ice is hundreds of meters thick everywhere. The overall pattern of the hydrological cycle in a Snowball climate is also discussed.

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Atmospheric Processes, Climatology (1616, 1620, 3305, 4215, 8408), Atmospheric Processes, Paleoclimatology (0473, 4900), Oceanography, Physical, Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes (0700, 0750, 0752, 0754), Planetary Sciences, Solid Surface Planets, Glaciation, Information Related to Geologic Time, Proterozoic
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Geophysical Research Letters
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