Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Carbon dioxide feedback on ocean planets 8th July 2015, 4:43 pm | |
| Kitzmann et al. "The unstable CO 2 feedback cycle on ocean planets" http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01727Clue's in the title: the carbon dioxide cycle on ocean planets, where carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere by dissolving into the ocean, is unstable: a cooler ocean is more able to dissolve carbon dioxide, thus removing a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and tending towards runaway cooling, while a hotter ocean is less able to dissolve carbon dioxide and therefore tends to push conditions towards runaway greenhouse. Combined with the ice-albedo feedback it seems that the liquid water zone for ocean planets is much narrower than for terrestrial planets on which a silicate-carbonate cycle can operate. | |
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
| Subject: Re: Carbon dioxide feedback on ocean planets 29th September 2016, 4:00 pm | |
| Maybe there is a possible negative feedback for carbon dioxide after all... Levi, Sasselov & Podolak "The Abundance of Atmospheric CO 2 in Ocean Exoplanets: A Novel CO 2 Deposition Mechanism" https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08185 | |
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