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Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-937-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-937-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
Research article
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02 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 02 Dec 2016

A conceptual model of oceanic heat transport in the Snowball Earth scenario

Darin Comeau, Douglas A. Kurtze, and Juan M. Restrepo

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The ocean is an important vehicle for redistributing Earth's heat from the tropics to high latitudes. We present a conceptual global climate model, with a focus on the coupling between oceanic heat transport and sea ice cover. We use this model to study the role of heat exchange between the ocean and ice components on the global climate system, including investigating the initiation of a global ice-covered climate ("Snowball Earth"), as well as the reversibility of the loss of polar ice caps.
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