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Collapse of the general circulation in shortwave-absorbing atmospheres: an idealized model study
Wanying Kang, Robin Wordsworth
The response of the general circulation in a dry atmosphere to various atmospheric shortwave absorptivities is investigated in a three-dimensional general circulation model with gr…
Jupiter's composition suggests its core assembled exterior to the N2 snowline
Karin I. Oberg, Robin Wordsworth
Jupiter's atmosphere is enriched in C, N, S, P, Ar, Kr and Xe with respect to solar abundances by a factor of ~3. Gas Giant envelopes are mainly enriched through the dissolution of…
Sulfate Aerosol Hazes and SO2 Gas as Constraints on Rocky Exoplanets' Surface Liquid Water
Kaitlyn Loftus, Robin D. Wordsworth, Caroline V. Morley
Despite surface liquid water's importance to habitability, observationally diagnosing its presence or absence on exoplanets is still an open problem. Inspired within the Solar Syst…
Growth Model Interpretation of Planet Size Distribution
Li Zeng, Stein B. Jacobsen, Dimitar D. Sasselov +13
The radii and orbital periods of 4000+ confirmed/candidate exoplanets have been precisely measured by the Kepler mission. The radii show a bimodal distribution, with two peaks corr…
Atmospheric Evolution on Low-gravity Waterworlds
Constantin W. Arnscheidt, Robin D. Wordsworth, Feng Ding
Low-gravity waterworlds () are of interest for their potential habitability. The weakly bound atmospheres of such worlds have proportionally larger radiat…
A New Line-By-Line General Circulation Model for Simulations of Diverse Planetary Atmospheres: Initial Validation and Application to the Exoplanet GJ 1132b
Feng Ding, Robin D. Wordsworth
Exploring diverse planetary atmospheres requires modeling tools that are both accurate and flexible. Here, we develop a three-dimensional general circulation model (3D GCM) that fo…
The Importance of 3D General Circulation Models for Characterizing the Climate and Habitability of Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets
Eric T. Wolf, Ravi Kopparapu, Vladimir Airapetian +27
While recently discovered exotic new planet-types have both challenged our imaginations and broadened our knowledge of planetary system workings, perhaps the most compelling object…
Habitable zone predictions and how to test them
Ramses M. Ramirez, Dorian S. Abbot, Yuka Fujii +11
The habitable zone (HZ) is the region around a star(s) where standing bodies of water could exist on the surface of a rocky planet. The classical HZ definition makes a number of as…