Moist Convection Is Most Vigorous at Intermediate Atmospheric Humidity
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 In Earth’s current climate, moist convective updraft speeds increase with surface warming. This trend suggests that very vigorous convection might be the norm in extremely hot and humid atmospheres, such as those undergoing a runaway greenhouse ...
Jacob T. Seeley, Robin D. Wordsworth
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Nightside condensation of iron in an ultra-hot giant exoplanet [PDF]
Nature, 2020 Ultrahot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth’s insolation 1 , 2 . Their high-temperature atmospheres (greater than 2,000 kelvin) are ideal laboratories for studying extreme planetary climates and chemistry 3 – 5 .
D. Ehrenreich +96 more
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The ecology of peace: preparing Colombia for new political and planetary climates
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2018 This paper is the result of the INTERnational Conference on AtMosphere–BIOsphere Interactions (INTERCAMBIO), held in Medellin, Colombia, in October–November 2016.
A. Salazar +19 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 In this study, we employ a cloud-resolving model to investigate how gravity influences convection and clouds in a small-domain (96 × 96 km) radiative–convective equilibrium.
Jiachen Liu +3 more
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The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2019 The discovery of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun has accelerated over the past decade, and this trend will continue as new space- and ground-based observatories employ next-generation instrumentation to search the skies for habitable worlds ...
Aomawa L. Shields
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Future climates: Markov blankets and active inference in the biosphere
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2020 We formalize the Gaia hypothesis about the Earth climate system using advances in theoretical biology based on the minimization of variational free energy.
Sergio Rubin +3 more
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Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets. II. Rotational “Goldilocks” Zones for Fractional Habitability and Silicate Weathering [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2018 Planetary rotation rate has a significant effect on atmospheric circulation, where the strength of the Coriolis effect in part determines the efficiency of latitudinal heat transport, altering cloud distributions, surface temperatures, and precipitation ...
Tiffany Jansen +3 more
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The Effect of Orbital Configuration on the Possible Climates and Habitability of Kepler-62f [PDF]
Astrobiology, 2016 As lower-mass stars often host multiple rocky planets, gravitational interactions among planets can have significant effects on climate and habitability over long timescales.
Aomawa L. Shields +5 more
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Superhabitability of High-obliquity and High-eccentricity Planets
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Planetary obliquity and eccentricity influence climate by shaping the spatial and temporal patterns of stellar energy incident at a planet’s surface, affecting both the annual mean climate and magnitude of seasonal variability.
Jonathan Jernigan +3 more
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Gliese 581d is the first discovered terrestrial-mass exoplanet in the habitable zone [PDF]
, 2011 It has been suggested that the recently discovered exoplanet GJ581d might be able to support liquid water due to its relatively low mass and orbital distance.
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