Early Life Crises of Habitable Planets [electronic resource].
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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science, 2006. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy
There are a number of crises that a potentially habitable planet must avoid or surmount if its potential is to be realized. These include the runaway greenhouse, loss of atmosphere by chemical or physical processes, and long-lasting global glaciation. In this lecture I will present research on the climate dynamics governing such processes, with particular emphasis on the lessons to be learned from the cases of Early Mars and the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth.
Published through SciTech Connect. 02/08/2006. "060208Pierrehumbert1" Fermilab Colloquia, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batvia, Illinois (United States), presented on February 8, 2006. Pierrehumbert, Raymond.