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PMID: 23288536 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Understanding how Earth has sustained surface liquid water throughout its history remains a key challenge, given that the Sun's luminosity was much lower in the past. Here we show that with an atmospheric composition consistent with the most recent constraints, the early Earth would have been significantly warmed by H(2)-N(2) collision-induced absorption. With two to three times the present-day atmospheric mass of N(2) and a H(2) mixing ratio of 0.1, H(2)-N(2) warming would be sufficient to raise global mean surface temperatures above 0°C under 75% of present-day solar flux, with CO(2) levels only 2 to 25 times the present-day values. Depending on their time of emergence and diversification, early methanogens may have caused global cooling via the conversion of H(2) and CO(2) to CH(4), with potentially observable consequences in the geological record. |
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Robin Wordsworth; Raymond Pierrehumbert |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Science (New York, N.Y.) Volume: 339 ISSN: 1095-9203 ISO Abbreviation: Science Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-01-04 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0404511 Medline TA: Science Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 64-7 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Geological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. rwordsworth@uchicago.edu |
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Science. 2013 Jan 4;339(6115):44-5
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