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Modern climate change presents unprecedented challenges, posing critical crises that threaten sustainable development, human well-being, and planetary health. A significant concern is the potential for global warming to cause irreversible…

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Climate transitions on exoplanets offer valuable insights into the atmospheric processes governing planetary habitability. Previous pure-steam atmospheric models show a thermal limit in outgoing long-wave radiation, which has been used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Iris D. Boer , Harrison Nicholls , Tim Lichtenberg

Hot Jupiters are Jupiter-sized exoplanets with close-in orbits, characterized by extreme day-night temperature contrasts due to synchronous rotation. These planets offer unique observational opportunities through transit photometry,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 W. Dietrich , J. Wicht

In systems with a conserved density, the additional conservation of the center of mass (dipole moment) has been shown to slow down the associated hydrodynamics. At the same time, long-range interactions generally lead to faster transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-27 Alan Morningstar , Nicholas O'Dea , Jonas Richter

In Earth's current climate, moist convective updraft speeds increase with surface warming. This trend suggests that very vigorous convection might be the norm in extremely hot and humid atmospheres, such as those undergoing a runaway…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jacob T. Seeley , Robin D. Wordsworth

Magmatism in subduction zones builds continental crust and causes most of Earth's subaerial volcanism. The production rate and composition of magmas are controlled by the thermal structure of subduction zones. A range of geochemical and…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 David W. Rees Jones , Richard F. Katz , Meng Tian , John F. Rudge

A radiative-convective climate model is used to calculate stratospheric temperatures and water vapor concentrations for ozone-free atmospheres warmer than that of modern Earth. Cold, dry stratospheres are predicted at low surface…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 James F. Kasting , Howard Chen , Ravi Kumar Kopparapu

Regional climate change in the $21^{st}$ century will result from the interplay between human-induced changes and internal climate variability. Competing effects from greenhouse gas warming and aerosol cooling have historically caused…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Raphaël Hébert , Thomas Laepple

The vehicular flow in the urban street canyon is considered. The classical field description is used in the modelling of the vehicular movement and of gaseous mixture in generic urban street canyon. The dynamical variables include vehicular…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

The volcanism plays an important part in mass exchange circle to bring matter from core of planet to atmosphere. Thus, it is a possible method to research the change of elements abundance in atmosphere by modeling the process of volatiles…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-02 Zihan Huang , Xing Zhou Q

The orbital regime of a terrestrial planet plays a significant role in shaping its atmospheric dynamics, climate, and hence potential habitability. The orbit is also likely to play a role in shaping the response of a planetary atmosphere to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 F. Sainsbury-Martinez , C. Walsh

We first recall fundamentals of elementary climate physics: solar constant, radiative balance, greenhouse effect, astronomical parameters of the climate (theory of Milankovitch). Without disputing the analyzes of climatologists and the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-25 Daniel Parrochia

Aspects of the dynamical glass transition are considered within a mean field spin glass model. At the dynamical transition the the system condenses in a state of lower entropy. The difference, the information entropy or complexity, is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

The power of atmospheric circulation is a key measure of the Earth's climate system. The mismatch between predictions and observations under a warming climate calls for a reassessment of how atmospheric power $W$ is defined, estimated and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Anastassia M. Makarieva , Victor G. Gorshkov , Andrei V. Nefiodov , Douglas Sheil , Antonio Donato Nobre , Bai-Lian Li

We consider super-Earth sized planets which have a water mass fraction that is large enough to form an external mantle composed of high pressure water ice polymorphs and that lack a substantial H/He atmosphere. We consider such planets in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-01 Amit Levi , Dimitar Sasselov , Morris Podolak

Earth's distant past and potentially its future include extremely warm "hothouse" climate states, but little is known about how the atmosphere behaves in such states. One distinguishing characteristic of hothouse climates is that they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Jacob Seeley , Robin Wordsworth

How strong are quantitative contributions of the key natural modes of climate variability and the anthropogenic factor characterized by the changes of the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to the trends of the surface…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 I. I. Mokhov , D. A. Smirnov

The physical origins of the observed interannual variability of weather and climate on Mars are poorly understood. In this paper we introduce a deterministic physical mechanism that may account for much of the variability of the circulation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 James H. Shirley

The influence of atmospheric composition on the climates of present-day and early Earth has been studied extensively, but the role of ocean composition has received less attention. We use the ROCKE-3D ocean-atmosphere general circulation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-16 Stephanie L. Olson , Malte F. Jansen , Dorian S. Abbot , Itay Halevy , Colin Goldblatt

Planetary obliquity (axial tilt) plays an important role in regulating the climate evolution and habitability of water-covered planets. Despite the suspicion of large obliquities in several exoplanetary systems, this phenomenon remains hard…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Y Wu , S. Portegies Zwart , H Dijkstra