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SUMMARY:Clouds across exoplanetary regimes: from hot gas giants to habitab
 le rocky exoplanets - Professor Tad Komacek (Oxford)
DTSTART:20251007T120000Z
DTEND:20251007T130000Z
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CONTACT:James Rogers
DESCRIPTION:The study of exoplanets has moved from an era of detection to 
 an era of atmospheric characterisation\, driven by the launch and commissi
 oning of JWST as well as improvements in ground-based observational facili
 ties. This era of characterisation will involve both deep studies of indiv
 idual high signal-to-noise exoplanet atmospheres as well as shallow and br
 oad studies of exoplanet atmospheric demographics. In this talk\, I will d
 escribe how we can leverage both of these characterisation methods alongsi
 de 3D models to study exoplanet atmospheres. I will specifically describe 
 the application of detailed 3D GCMs including the impact of clouds on the 
 circulation and emergent properties of hot gas giant and potentially habit
 able rocky exoplanets. I will describe how the climate dynamics of tempera
 te rocky exoplanets determine how planetary\, atmospheric\, and host star 
 properties impact their potential for habitability. I will finish by descr
 ibing the extent to which habitable conditions on rocky exoplanets may be 
 discerned with future observations. 
LOCATION:HOYLE LECTURE THEATRE + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email
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