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HABITABLE CLIMATES: THE INFLUENCE OF OBLIQUITY

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Spiegel, David S., Menou, Kristen, Scharf, Caleb A.·2009·The Astrophysical Journal

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Extrasolar terrestrial planets with the potential to host life might have large obliquities or be subject to strong obliquity variations. We revisit the habitability of oblique planets with an energy balance climate model (EBM) allowing for dynamical transitions to ice-covered snowball states as a result of ice-albedo feedback. Despite the great simplicity of our EBM, it captures reasonably well the seasonal cycle of global energetic fluxes at Earth's surface. It also performs satisfactorily against a full-physics climate model of a highly oblique Earth-like planet, in an unusual regime of circulation dominated by heat transport from the poles to the equator. Climates on oblique terrestrial planets can violate global radiative balance through much of their seasonal cycle, which limits the usefulness of simple radiative equilibrium arguments. High obliquity planets have severe climates, with large amplitude seasonal variations, but they are not necessarily more prone to global snowball transitions than low obliquity planets. We find that terrestrial planets with massive CO 2 atmospheres, typically expected in the outer regions of habitable zones, can also be subject to such dynamical snowball transitions. Some of the snowball climates investigated for CO 2 -rich atmospheres experience partial atmospheric collapse. Since long-term CO 2 atmospheric build-up acts as a climatic thermostat for habitable planets, partial CO 2 collapse could limit the habitability of such planets. A terrestrial planet's habitability may thus sensitively depend on its short-term climatic stability.

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Authors: Spiegel, D. S., Menou, K., & Scharf, C. A.
Affiliations: Princeton University (US)
Columbia University (US)
Corresponding author: Scharf, Caleb A.
ORCID: Scharf, Caleb A.
Venue: The Astrophysical Journal
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
Published: 2009-01-16
Volume: 691
Issue: 1
Pages: 596-610
ISSN: 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
1538-4357
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/691/1/596
OpenAlex: W1987364463
Cited by: 164
References: 45
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FWCI: 5.55
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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Locations: The Astrophysical Journal (publishedVersion)
arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
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Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNX07AG80G, NNG05GO79G)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
Keywords: obliquity, habitability, ice-albedo feedback, energy balance model, seasonal climate variability, CO2 atmosphere, atmospheric collapse, radiation balance

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