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In the spirit of minimal modeling of complex systems, we develop an idealized two-column model to investigate the climate of tidally locked terrestrial planets with Earth-like atmospheres in the habitable zone of M-dwarf stars. The model is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jun Yang , Dorian S. Abbot

We present a simplified model of the atmosphere of a terrestrial planet as an open two-dimensional system described by an ideal gas with velocity $\vec{v}$, density $\rho$ and temperature $T$ fields. Starting with the Chern-Simons equations…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Martín Jacques-Coper , Valentina Ortiz , Jorge Zanelli

We present a method to simulate nonhydrostatic ocean flows on a horizontally-unstructured grid with a moving generalized vertical coordinate (GVC). The nonhydrostatic governing equations are transformed to a GVC system that can represent…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Liangyi Yue , Yun Zhang , Sean Vitousek , Oliver B. Fringer

With the discovery of ever smaller and colder exoplanets, terrestrial worlds with hazy atmospheres must be increasingly considered. Our Solar System's Titan is a prototypical hazy planet, whose atmosphere may be representative of a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Juan M. Lora , Tiffany Kataria , Peter Gao

We present a new version of our code for modeling the atmospheric circulation on gaseous exoplanets, now employing a "double-gray" radiative transfer scheme, which self-consistently solves for fluxes and heating throughout the atmosphere,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Emily Rauscher , Kristen Menou

Precise fundamental atmospheric stellar parameters and abundance determination of individual elements in stars are important for all stellar population studies. Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (Non-LTE; hereafter NLTE) models are often…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Yangyang Li , Rana Ezzeddine

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, we are firmly in the era of exoplanet atmosphere characterization. Understanding exoplanet spectra requires atmospheric chemical and climate models that span the diversity of planetary…

Weather extremes are a major societal and economic hazard, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage every year. Under climate change, their impact and intensity are expected to worsen significantly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Antoine Blanchard , Nishant Parashar , Boyko Dodov , Christian Lessig , Themistoklis Sapsis

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 this paper we present a new family of semi-discrete and fully-discrete finite volume schemes for overdetermined, hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible PDE systems. In the following we will denote these methods as HTC schemes. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Saray Busto , Michael Dumbser , Ilya Peshkov , Evgeniy Romenski

Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) are natural laboratories to study extreme physics in planetary atmospheres and their rich observational data sets are yet to be confronted with models with varying complexities at a population level. In this work,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Xianyu Tan , Thaddeus D. Komacek , Natasha E. Batalha , Drake Deming , Roxana Lupu , Vivien Parmentier , Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

To understand high precision observations of exoplanets and brown dwarfs, we need detailed and complex general circulation models (GCMs) that incorporate hydrodynamics, chemistry, and radiation. For this study, we specifically examined the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Aaron David Schneider , Paul Mollière , Gilles Louppe , Ludmila Carone , Uffe Gråe Jørgensen , Leen Decin , Christiane Helling

Context: The past decade has witnessed a large number of Galactic plane surveys at angular resolutions below 20". However, no comparable high-resolution survey exists at long radio wavelengths around 21cm in line and continuum emission.…

Finite element model updating is a mature discipline for linear structures, yet its extension to nonlinear regimes remains an open challenge. This paper presents a methodology that combines nonlinear model order reduction (NMOR) based on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas , Jake Hollins , Konstantinos Agathos , Evangelos Papatheou

We use the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (GCM) dynamical core, in conjunction with a Newtonian relaxation scheme that relaxes to a gray, analytical solution of the radiative transfer equation, to simulate a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Angela M. Zalucha , Timothy I. Michaels , Nikku Madhusudhan

We use an idealized three-dimensional general circulation model to study condensible-rich atmospheres with an ineffective cold trap on slowly rotating tidally locked terrestrial planets. In particular, we show the climate dynamics in a thin…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-05 Feng Ding , Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

With the commissioning of powerful, new-generation telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the ground-based Extremely Large Telescopes, the first characterization of a high molecular weight atmosphere around a temperate…

We present EOS, a procedure for determining the Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) and top-of-atmosphere (TOA) albedo for a wide range of conditions expected to be present in the atmospheres of rocky planets with temperate conditions. EOS is…

The objective of this work is to investigate the utility and effectiveness of the high-order scheme for simulating unsteady turbulent flows. To achieve it, the studies were conducted from two perspectives: (i) the ability of different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-30 Peng Jiang , Yichen Huang , Yong Cao , Shijun Liao , Bin Xie

The Aether-Scalar-Tensor (AeST) theory is an extension of General Relativity (GR) which can support Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) behaviour in its static weak-field limit, and cosmological evolution resembling $\Lambda$CDM. We consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Amel Durakovic , Constantinos Skordis