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ExoClimes 2010 - Exploring the diversity of planetary atmospheres
Event Details:
From: 07 September 2010  
To: 10 September 2010  
Address: Streatham campus
University of Exeter
Exeter
Country: United Kingdom
More info: Link to event website

This meeting is designed to bring together Earth, Solar System and Exoplanet specialists to discuss recent results and the way ahead, and put our own climate in the wider context of the trials and tribulations of planetary atmospheres.

Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realise whilst attempting to understand, forecast and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the Solar System, our neighbours Venus and Mars provide striking examples of two endpoints of planetary evolution, runaway greenhouse and loss of atmosphere to space.

The variety of extra-solar planets brings a wider angle to the issue: from scorching 'hot jupiters' to ocean worlds, exoatmospheres explore many configurations unknown in the Solar System, such as iron clouds, silicate rains, extreme plate tectonics, and steam volcanoes. Exoplanetary atmospheres have recently become accessible to observations.

Conference themes:

  • Extra-Solar planets
    Atmosphere and circulation models of hot gas giants
    The atmosphere-interior connection
     
  • Solar System planets
    Comparative planetology, Mars, Venus, Earth, Titan
     
  • Bridging the Gap
    Applying GCM to exoplanets, toy models, ocean planets,
    Super-Earths and lava worlds, formation of atmospheres
     
  • Living atmospheres
    Habitability, atmosphere-life co-evolution, Earth as a system,
    Climate change

Last Update: 02 June 2010

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