Bibcode
Palle, Enric; Sanroma, E.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #2, #29.07
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2011
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Description
By making use of real information about the continental and oceanic
surface distribution of the Earth, and cloudiness data from the
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), we have
studied the large-scale cloudiness behavior according to latitude and
surface types (ice, water, vegetation and desert). These empirical
relationships are used here to reconstruct the possible cloud
distribution of historical epochs of the Earth history such as the Late
Cretaceous (90 Ma ago), the Late Triassic (230 Ma ago), the
Mississippian (340 Ma ago), and the Late Cambrian (500 Ma ago), when the
landmass distributions were di®erent from today's. This information
is used here to simulate the photometric variability of these planets
according to their different geographical distribution.