Lazarus
dF star
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Registration date : 2008-06-12
 | | Subject: Substellar wetlands on arid tidally locked planets? 23rd February 2020, 3:55 pm | |
| Ding & Wordsworth "Stabilization of dayside surface liquid water via tropopause cold trapping on arid slowly rotating tidally locked planets" https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08600Provided there is sufficient carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the water on a tidally-locked planet may end up in a wetland/oasis near the substellar point, surrounded by hyper-arid desert. This requires the planet to be sufficiently slowly rotating, so maybe a possibility around early-type M dwarfs/late K stars? | |
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