Questions tagged [greenhouse-effect]
For questions about the greenhouse-effect, on Earth or other planets
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What factors can I use determine if my runaway greenhouse planet will have a thick water vapour atmosphere?
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When Earth’s oceans evaporate, one of two feedback situations could occur:
The "moist greenhouse" where water vapour dominates the troposphere while ...
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Habitable inner planet with large oceans, fast rotation and earth-like atmosphere
According to several articles (such as this post), a habitable inner planet (more than 1.1x Earth’s insolation) could realistically form with liquid water (and avoid turning Venusian) through the ...
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Evaporation phase runaway greenhouse planet, getting temperature and air pressure values
According to this video:
When Earth reaches the Komabayashi–Ingersoll limit, it will reach the point where a runaway greenhouse can occur. In the evaporation phase, Earth will end up with an ...
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How much light would pass through ice? [closed]
I am writing a book in which a civilisation lives in the remnants of a giant crater with a dome of ice over the top. This crater is huge, I'm talking about 200 square miles huge, so this is a very ...
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How to explain an ocean planet having lots of greenhouse gases
How would I explain an ocean planet having a large amount of greenhouse gasses, I do not mean akin to Venus, I just mean enough to increase the size of the habitable zone by a sufficent amount. Enough ...
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How can I avoid the runaway greenhouse effect on a planet with 2x Earth masses and a dense thick atmosphere?
I've been working on a spec bio project with a planet which is 2x Earth masses with a dense atmosphere. However, I have one big issue : how do I avoid making a runaway greenhouse effect? Like the ...
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Let's have a planetary greenhouse effect only in winter?
Suppose there's zillions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere of a planet and summer temperatures become unbearable. The amount of CO2 is so big it cannot be removed anymore, or it would become an endless ...
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How to calculate greenhouse effect for planet as well as for the atmosphere?
I recently found a calculation on how to calculate the greenhouse effect for Earth from another question here, but I couldn't make heads or tails of the calculations that were provided in one of the ...
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How would I calculate the greenhouse effect based on atmospheric composition?
Problem: For a known, but hypothetical planet orbiting a celestial body, how would I calculate the surface temperature after greenhouse gases?
What I know about the planet as given:
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Keeping the global average temperature at current levels if the Earth moves away from the Sun. What is the limit?
Suppose that due to an encounter with a rogue planet, the Earth is propelled out of the Solar system. It will then get gradually colder on Earth. We can try to restore the global temperature to the ...
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How to calculate the greenhouse effect?
I tried many equations (Stefan-Boltzmann constant) that gave me a temperature of 249.769 Kelvin (-23.38°C) assuming no atmosphere and 297 Kelvin (24°C) with perfectly absorbing one, but my planet is ...
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