FIGURE 2. Operating curve for the climate/ice-sheet model.

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Neoproterozoic 'snowball Earth' simulations with a coupled climate/ice-sheet model

William T. Hyde, Thomas J. Crowley, Steven K. Baum and W. Richard Peltier

Nature 405, 425-429(25 May 2000)

doi:10.1038/35013005

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Ice volume and global sea level temperature are shown as a function of CO2 level and of infrared forcing. A bifurcation occurs at a cooling of approx5 W m-2, beyond which all land surfaces are ice-covered and global temperature drops considerably: the snowball Earth.

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