A Coupled Ecosystem-Climate Model for Predicting the Methane Concentration in the Archean Atmosphere
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 31 (3) , 271-285
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010600401718
Abstract
A simple coupled ecosystem-climate model is described that canpredict levels of atmospheric CH4, CO2, and H2during the Late Archean, given observed constraints on Earth'ssurface temperature. We find...Keywords
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