Journal
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 11, Pages 2044-2048Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.01.031
Keywords
Planetary atmospheres; Exosolar planets
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A semigray (shortwave and longwave) surface temperature model is developed from conditions on Venus, Earth and Mars, where the greenhouse effect is mostly due to carbon dioxide and water vapor. In addition to estimating longwave optical depths, parameterizations are developed for surface cooling due to shortwave absorption in the atmosphere, and for convective (sensible and latent) heat transfer. An approximation to the Clausius-Clapeyron relation provides water-vapor feedback. The resulting iterative algorithm is applied to three super-Earths in the Gliese 581 system, including the Goldilocks planet g (Vogt et al., 2010). Surprisingly, none of the three appear habitable. One cannot accurately locate a star's habitable zone without data or assumptions about a planet's atmosphere. (C) 2011 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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