Abrupt climate transition of icy worlds from snowball to moist or runaway greenhouse

Strong effects of tropical ice-sheet coverage and thickness on the hard snowball Earth bifurcation point

(2016) Yonggang Liu et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

From climate models to planetary habitability: temperature constraints for complex life

(2016) Laura Silva et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Transition to a Moist Greenhouse with CO2 and solar forcing

(2016) Max Popp et al.   Nature Communications

Climate stability of habitable Earth-like planets

(2015) Kristen Menou   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Strong water isotopic anomalies in the martian atmosphere: Probing current and ancient reservoirs

(2015) G. L. Villanueva et al.   SCIENCE

Asynchronous rotation of Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone of lower-mass stars

(2015) J. Leconte et al.   SCIENCE

Thermal convection and the convective regime diagram in super-Earths

(2015) Takehiro Miyagoshi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The thermal equation of state of (Mg, Fe)SiO3 bridgmanite (perovskite) and implications for lower mantle structures

(2015) Aaron S. Wolf et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Formation, Habitability, and Detection of Extrasolar Moons

(2014) René Heller et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

SPECTRUM-DRIVEN PLANETARY DEGLACIATION DUE TO INCREASES IN STELLAR LUMINOSITY

(2014) Aomawa L. Shields et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

STRONG DEPENDENCE OF THE INNER EDGE OF THE HABITABLE ZONE ON PLANETARY ROTATION RATE

(2014) Jun Yang et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Resolved Snowball Earth Clouds

(2014) Dorian S. Abbot   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Origin and Stability of Exomoon Atmospheres: Implications for Habitability

(2014) Helmut Lammer et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

The Effect of Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution and Ice-Albedo Feedback on the Climate of Extrasolar Planets

(2013) Aomawa L. Shields et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

WATER LOSS FROM TERRESTRIAL PLANETS WITH CO2-RICH ATMOSPHERES

(2013) R. D. Wordsworth et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

STABILIZING CLOUD FEEDBACK DRAMATICALLY EXPANDS THE HABITABLE ZONE OF TIDALLY LOCKED PLANETS

(2013) Jun Yang et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Inner edge of the habitable zone

(2013) James F. Kasting et al.   NATURE

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

(2013) Jérémy Leconte et al.   NATURE

Low simulated radiation limit for runaway greenhouse climates

(2013) Colin Goldblatt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effects of bubbles, cracks, and volcanic tephra on the spectral albedo of bare ice near the Transantarctic Mountains: Implications for sea glaciers on Snowball Earth

(2013) Ruzica Dadic et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Kepler-22b: A 2.4 EARTH-RADIUS PLANET IN THE HABITABLE ZONE OF A SUN-LIKE STAR

(2012) William J. Borucki et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE HUNT FOR EXOMOONS WITHKEPLER(HEK). I. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW OBSERVATIONAL PROJECT

(2012) D. M. Kipping et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Clouds and Snowball Earth deglaciation

(2012) Dorian S. Abbot et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global modelling of the early martian climate under a denser CO2 atmosphere: Water cycle and ice evolution

(2012) R. Wordsworth et al.   ICARUS

Climate of the Neoproterozoic

(2011) R.T. Pierrehumbert et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Habitable Zone Limits for Dry Planets

(2011) Yutaka Abe et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Initiation of Modern “Soft Snowball” and “Hard Snowball” Climates in CCSM3. Part I: The Influences of Solar Luminosity, CO2Concentration, and the Sea Ice/Snow Albedo Parameterization

(2011) Jun Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The Initiation of Modern “Soft Snowball” and “Hard Snowball” Climates in CCSM3. Part II: Climate Dynamic Feedbacks

(2011) Jun Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The Importance of Ice Vertical Resolution for Snowball Climate and Deglaciation

(2010) Dorian S. Abbot et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Mudball: Surface dust and Snowball Earth deglaciation

(2010) Dorian S. Abbot et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A carbon cycle coupled climate model of Neoproterozoic glaciation: Influence of continental configuration on the formation of a “soft snowball”

(2010) Yonggang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

GEODYNAMICS AND RATE OF VOLCANISM ON MASSIVE EARTH-LIKE PLANETS

(2009) E. S. Kite et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Thermal inertia and bolometric Bond albedo values for Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus as derived from Cassini/CIRS measurements

(2009) C.J.A. Howett et al.   ICARUS

Hydrohalite in cold sea ice: Laboratory observations of single crystals, surface accumulations, and migration rates under a temperature gradient, with application to “Snowball Earth”

(2009) Bonnie Light et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C

(2009) Malte Meinshausen et al.   NATURE

Snowball Planets as a Possible Type of Water-Rich Terrestrial Planet in Extrasolar Planetary Systems

(2008) E. Tajika   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The snowball Earth aftermath: Exploring the limits of continental weathering processes

(2008) Guillaume Le Hir et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS