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Atmospheric Convection Plays a Key Role in the Climate of Tidally Locked Terrestrial Exoplanets: Insights from High-resolution Simulations

  • Authors: Denis E. Sergeev, F. Hugo Lambert, Nathan J. Mayne, Ian Boutle, James Manners, and Krisztian Kohary

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 894 84.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Distribution of clouds and precipitation for the Trappist-1e and Proxima b cases in the control and sensitivity simulations. Low (L), mid-level (M), and high (H) cloud classes correspond to 0–2 km, 2–5.5 km, and ﹩\gt 5.5\,\mathrm{km}﹩ in altitude, respectively. The cloud cover is given by the maximum cloud fraction (0–1) on any model level. If only one type of cloud is present, the color scale shows that fraction, with a contour interval of 0.1. If more than one type of cloud is present, the color scale shows the average of the two or three cloud types present. Note that clouds with very low water content (optical depth < 0.01) are filtered out. Mean precipitation (﹩\mathrm{mm}\,{{\rm{h}}}^{-1}﹩) in the form of rain and snow is shown by the green and blue contours, respectively.

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