4 papers
Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets
Aomawa L. Shields, Cecilia M. Bitz, Igor Palubski
The pathways through which incoming energy is distributed between the surface and atmosphere has been analyzed for the Earth. However, the effect of the spectral energy distributio…
Probabilistic Forecasting of the Arctic Sea Ice Edge with Contour Modeling
Hannah M. Director, Adrian E. Raftery, Cecilia M. Bitz
Sea ice, or frozen ocean water, freezes and melts every year in the Arctic. Forecasts of where sea ice will be located weeks to months in advance have become more important as the…
VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator
Rory Barnes, Rodrigo Luger, Russell Deitrick +14
We describe a software package called VPLanet that simulates fundamental aspects of planetary system evolution over Gyr timescales, with a focus on investigating habitable worlds.…
The Effect of Orbital Configuration on the Possible Climates and Habitability of Kepler-62f
Aomawa L. Shields, Rory Barnes, Eric Agol +3
As lower-mass stars often host multiple rocky planets, gravitational interactions among planets can have significant effects on climate and habitability over long timescales. Here…