Comparison of Warm, Wet and Cold, Icy Scenarios for Late Noachian Mars in a 3d General Circulation Model
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3D GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL R. D. Wordsworth, L. Kerber, R. T. Pierrehumbert, F. Forget and J. Head. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; [email protected], SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043-5203, USA, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, UPMC, Paris, France, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015