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astro-ph.EP2020★ 21 cited

Effects of Spin-Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone

Christopher M. Colose, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Eric T. Wolf +4

Much attention has been given to the climate dynamics and habitable boundaries of synchronously rotating planets around low mass stars. However, other rotational states are possibl…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 166 cited

Venusian Habitable Climate Scenarios: Modeling Venus through time and applications to slowly rotating Venus-Like Exoplanets

M. J. Way, Anthony, D. Del Genio

One popular view of Venus' climate history describes a world that has spent much of its life with surface liquid water, plate tectonics, and a stable temperate climate. Part of the…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 77 cited

TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Motivations and protocol version 1.0

Thomas J. Fauchez, Martin Turbet, Eric T. Wolf +10

Upcoming telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), or the Extremely Large Telescope (ELTs), may soon be able to characterize, through transmission, emission or refl…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 37 cited

Enhanced Habitability on High Obliquity Bodies near the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone of Sun-like Stars

Christopher M. Colose, Anthony D. Del Genio, Michael J. Way

High obliquity planets represent potentially extreme limits of terrestrial climate, as they exhibit large seasonality, a reversed annual-mean pole-to-equator gradient of stellar he…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 246 cited

Impact of Space Weather on Climate and Habitability of Terrestrial Type Exoplanets

V. S. Airapetian, R. Barnes, O. Cohen +43

The current progress in the detection of terrestrial type exoplanets has opened a new avenue in the characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres and in the search for biosignatures…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 11 cited

The Need for Laboratory Measurements and Ab Initio Studies to Aid Understanding of Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Jonathan J. Fortney, Tyler D. Robinson, Shawn Domagal-Goldman +85

We are now on a clear trajectory for improvements in exoplanet observations that will revolutionize our ability to characterize their atmospheric structure, composition, and circul…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 29 cited

Albedos, Equilibrium Temperatures, and Surface Temperatures of Habitable Planets

Anthony D. Del Genio, Nancy Y. Kiang, Michael J. Way +8

The potential habitability of known exoplanets is often categorized by a nominal equilibrium temperature assuming a Bond albedo of either 0.3, similar to Earth, or 0. As an indicat…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 32 cited

Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets II: Rotational 'Goldilocks' Zones for Fractional Habitability and Silicate Weathering

Tiffany Jansen, Caleb Scharf, Michael Way +1

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 transpo…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 72 cited

Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets I: 3-D Model Simulations

M. J. Way, A. D. Del Genio, I. Aleinov +3

We present a large ensemble of simulations of an Earth-like world with increasing insolation and rotation rate. Unlike previous work utilizing idealized aquaplanet configurations w…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 1 cited

The Inner Solar System's Habitability Through Time

Anthony D. Del Genio, David Brain, Lena Noack +1

Earth, Mars, and Venus, irradiated by an evolving Sun, have had fascinating but diverging histories of habitability. Although only Earth's surface is considered to be habitable tod…

astro-ph.EP2018

Exoplanet Diversity in the Era of Space-based Direct Imaging Missions

Ravi Kopparapu, Eric Hebrard, Rus Belikov +55

This whitepaper discusses the diversity of exoplanets that could be detected by future observations, so that comparative exoplanetology can be performed in the upcoming era of larg…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 125 cited

Habitable Climate Scenarios for Proxima Centauri b With a Dynamic Ocean

Anthony D. Del Genio, Michael J. Way, David S. Amundsen +4

The nearby exoplanet Proxima Centauri b will be a prime future target for characterization, despite questions about its retention of water. Climate models with static oceans sugges…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 212 cited

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment

David C. Catling, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Nancy Y. Kiang +7

Finding life on exoplanets from telescopic observations is an ultimate goal of exoplanet science. Life produces gases and other substances, such as pigments, which can have distinc…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 69 cited

NIR-Driven Moist Upper Atmospheres of Synchronously Rotating Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets

Yuka Fujii, Anthony D. Del Genio, David S. Amundsen

HO is a key molecule in characterizing atmospheres of temperate terrestrial planets, and observations of transmission spectra are expected to play a primary role in detecting i…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 129 cited

Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with Dynamics 1.0: A General Circulation Model for Simulating the Climates of Rocky Planets

M. J. Way, Igor Aleinov, David. S. Amundsen +8

Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with Dynamics (ROCKE-3D) is a 3-Dimensional General Circulation Model (GCM) developed at the NASA Godd…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 308 cited

Was Venus the First Habitable World of our Solar System?

Michael J. Way, Anthony D. Del Genio, Nancy Y. Kiang +5

Present-day Venus is an inhospitable place with surface temperatures approaching 750K and an atmosphere over 90 times as thick as present day Earth's. Billions of years ago the pic…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 15 cited

Exploring the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone with Fully Coupled Oceans

M. J. Way, A. D. Del Genio, M. Kelley +2

Rotation in planetary atmospheres plays an important role in regulating atmospheric and oceanic heat flow, cloud formation and precipitation. Using the Goddard Institute for Space…

physics.ao-ph2013★ 12 cited

Moist convection scheme in Model E2

Daehyun Kim, Anthony D. Del Genio, Mao-Sung Yao

This documentation describes the version of the Del Genio - Yao cumulus parameterization used in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Model E2 GCM. This version was used fo…