Published April 2, 2024 | Version v1

Limits of the Habitable Zone for H2 atmosphere with 3D climate Modelling

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  • 1. ROR icon University of Geneva

Description

Water is crucial for life, regardless of the environment. That's why in search of extraterrestrial life, we focus on planets in the habitable zone (HZ), where liquid water can exist. The size of this zone depends on factors like the star type and planet size. Using the Generic PCM model (https://lmdz-forge.lmd.jussieu.fr/mediawiki/Planets/index.php/Overview_of_the_Generic_PCM), we've defined the limits of the HZ for atmospheres dominated by H2 in 3D for the first time. You can access the dataset from the simulations in ".nc" file format. Temporal evolution of variables such as surface temperature, surface pressure, water vapour, liquid water, ice etc. are in a 3D grid for different orbital distances and with different surface pressures are present in the dataset. We have used the correlated-k table published in Zenodo for the simulations (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10978762).

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Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.10978762 (DOI)

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation
NCCR PlanetS: Origin, evolution and characterisation of planets (phase II) 182901
Swiss National Science Foundation
NCCR PlanetS: Origin, evolution and characterisation of planets (phase III) 205606
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