Increased insolation threshold for runaway greenhouse processes on Earth-like planets

Jérémy Leconte (), Francois Forget, Benjamin Charnay, Robin Wordsworth and Alizée Pottier
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Jérémy Leconte: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, 4 Place Jussieu, BP 99, 75252 Paris, France
Francois Forget: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, 4 Place Jussieu, BP 99, 75252 Paris, France
Benjamin Charnay: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, 4 Place Jussieu, BP 99, 75252 Paris, France
Robin Wordsworth: University of Chicago
Alizée Pottier: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, 4 Place Jussieu, BP 99, 75252 Paris, France

Nature, 2013, vol. 504, issue 7479, 268-271

Abstract: A three-dimensional global climate model shows that the loss of a planet’s oceans through complete vaporization or evaporative escape to space will occur at considerably higher insolation than previously thought, owing to stabilizing atmospheric effects.

Date: 2013
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