Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..599k&link_type=abstract
EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.599
Computer Science
Scientific paper
The detection and characterization of exoplanets continues to be a burgeoning field of research, with the detection of Earth-sized exoplanets already being made by space-based and ground-based efforts (e.g. HARPS, Kepler, ESA's CoRoT, MEarth). The detection of super Earth GJ 1214b by the MEarth survey opened up a new door to characterizing a growing class of planets and their atmospheres. The atmospheric circulation of such an object-transitional between gas giants and terrestrial planets-is a fascinating problem with important implications for observables, yet almost no studies of the atmospheric circulation of super Earths have yet been performed. Therefore, we present three-dimensional atmospheric circulation models of GJ1214b using the SPARC/MITgcm, a general circulation model coupled to a plane-parallel, twostream, multi-band radiative transfer model. Here, we determine the effects of metallicity and atmospheric composition on the circulation and vertical temperature structure of the atmosphere.
Fortney Jonathan J.
Freedman Richard Stuart
Kataria Tiffany
Marley Mark S.
Showman Adam P.
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