Search Results - "Abbot, Dorian S"
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ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DECREASE IN THE SIZE OF THE HABITABLE ZONE DUE TO A LIMITED CO2 OUTGASSING RATE
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2016)“…ABSTRACT The habitable zone concept is important because it focuses the scientific search for extraterrestrial life and aids the planning of future telescopes…”
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The Atmospheric Circulation and Climate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Sun-like and M Dwarf Stars over a Broad Range of Planetary Parameters
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2019)“…The recent detections of temperate terrestrial planets orbiting nearby stars and the promise of characterizing their atmospheres motivate a need to understand…”
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TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE AND ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION OF DRY TIDALLY LOCKED ROCKY EXOPLANETS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2016)“…ABSTRACT Next-generation space telescopes will observe the atmospheres of rocky planets orbiting nearby M-dwarfs. Understanding these observations will require…”
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Resolved Snowball Earth Clouds
Published in Journal of climate (15-06-2014)“…Recent general circulation model (GCM) simulations have challenged the idea that a snowball Earth would be nearly entirely cloudless. This is important because…”
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Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2020)“…Liquid water oceans are at the center of our search for life on exoplanets because water is a strict requirement for life as we know it. However, oceans are…”
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Ocean Dynamics and the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2019)“…Recent studies have shown that ocean dynamics can have a significant warming effect on the permanent night sides of 1:1 tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets…”
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Climate Bistability at the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone due to Runaway Greenhouse and Cloud Feedbacks
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-09-2024)“…Understanding the climate dynamics at the inner edge of the habitable zone is crucial for predicting the habitability of rocky exoplanets. Previous studies…”
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The Jormungand global climate state and implications for Neoproterozoic glaciations
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research (17-09-2011)“…Geological and geochemical evidence can be interpreted as indicating strong hysteresis in global climate during the Neoproterozoic glacial events (∼630 Ma and…”
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EFFECT OF SURFACE-MANTLE WATER EXCHANGE PARAMETERIZATIONS ON EXOPLANET OCEAN DEPTHS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-11-2016)“…ABSTRACT Terrestrial exoplanets in the canonical habitable zone may have a variety of initial water fractions due to random volatile delivery by planetesimals…”
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Mercury’s Chaotic Secular Evolution as a Subdiffusive Process
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2024)“…Mercury’s orbit can destabilize, generally resulting in a collision with either Venus or the Sun. Chaotic evolution can cause g 1 to decrease to the…”
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Feedback temperature dependence determines the risk of high warming
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-06-2015)“…The long‐term warming from an anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO2 is often assumed to be proportional to the forcing associated with that increase. This…”
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Understanding the Capability of Future Direct-imaging Observations to Quantify Atmospheric Chemical Effects of Stellar Proton Events
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-09-2023)“…Models developed for Earth are often applied in exoplanet contexts. Validation in extraterrestrial settings can provide an important test of model realism and…”
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Critical Role of Vertical Radiative Cooling Contrast in Triggering Episodic Deluges in Small‐Domain Hothouse Climates
Published in Journal of advances in modeling earth systems (01-06-2024)“…Seeley and Wordsworth (2021, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586‐021‐03919‐z) showed that in small‐domain cloud‐resolving simulations the temporal pattern of…”
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Impact of Planetary Parameters on Water Clouds Microphysics
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2024)“…Potentially habitable exoplanets are targets of great interest for the James Webb Space Telescope and upcoming mission concepts such as the Habitable Worlds…”
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Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology
Published in Science advances (01-11-2017)“…Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and ≥5 My) glaciations. Combined…”
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DIFFERENCES IN WATER VAPOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER AMONG 1D MODELS CAN SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT THE INNER EDGE OF THE HABITABLE ZONE
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2016)“…ABSTRACT An accurate estimate of the inner edge of the habitable zone is critical for determining which exoplanets are potentially habitable and for designing…”
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THERMAL PHASES OF EARTH-LIKE PLANETS: ESTIMATING THERMAL INERTIA FROM ECCENTRICITY, OBLIQUITY, AND DIURNAL FORCING
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2012)“…In order to understand the climate on terrestrial planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, one would like to know their thermal inertia. We use a global climate…”
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Scaling Relations for Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres from Baroclinic Criticality
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2019)“…The macroturbulent atmospheric circulation of Earth-like planets mediates their equator-to-pole heat transport. For fast-rotating terrestrial planets,…”
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Simple Physics and Integrators Accurately Reproduce Mercury Instability Statistics
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2023)“…The long-term stability of the solar system is an issue of significant scientific and philosophical interest. The mechanism leading to instability is Mercury’s…”
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Erratum: “Simple Physics and Integrators Accurately Reproduce Mercury Instability Statistics” (2023, ApJ, 944, 190)
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