Limits of the Habitable Zone CO2 atmosphere with 3D Climate Modelling
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 CO2 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.10978791).
Files
Limits_of_HZ_CO2_atm.zip
Additional details
Related works
- Requires
- Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.10978791 (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
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Exploring the interactions between the internal structure, the atmosphere and the tidal evolution of planets around low-mass stars 215760