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Astrophysics Science Division | Sciences and Exploration

Artist's Concept of a Planetary System GSFC Exoplanet Atmospheres Seminar Series
A cross-disciplinary seminar series about application of Earth and Solar System planet atmosphere studies to the new field of extrasolar planet atmospheres.
Organizers: Jeremy Schnittman, Avi Mandell, Luke Oman, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Aki Roberge, Jose Rodriguez, & Warren Wiscombe
If you'd like to be added to the seminar mailing list, please email Jeremy Schnittman.

Thursdays, 2:00 PM -- 3:00 PM
2013 Seminars
June 17: bldg 34, room W305 Warren Wiscombe (GSFC, Code 613) "Climate Science History"
July 1: bldg 34, room W305 Warren Wiscombe (GSFC, Code 613) "Global Warming"
July 8: bldg 34, room W305 Warren Wiscombe (GSFC, Code 613) "Climate Models and the Cryosphere"
video (m4v format)
July 15: bldg 34, room W305 Warren Wiscombe (GSFC, Code 613) " Cryosphere" (zip file)
July 22: bldg 33, room H114 Warren Wiscombe (GSFC, Code 613) " Aerosols, Paleoclimate and the Carbon Cycle" (zip file)
2012 Seminars
March 21: bldg 33, room G114 Avi Mandell (GSFC, Code 693) & Aki Roberge (GSFC, Code 667) "Current and Future Observations of Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres"
April 26: bldg 34, room E215 Shawn Domagal-Goldman (NASA HQ) "Earth through Time as an Extrasolar Planet"
May 10: bldg 33, room H114 Warren Wiscombe (GSFC, Code 613) "Dinosaurs, Asteroid Impacts on Earth, and the Interaction between Impacts and the Evolution of Life"
May 31: bldg 34, room E305 Lazaros Oreopoulos (GSFC, Code 613) "The Earth's Energy Budget: Balance and Imbalances, Knowns and Unknowns"
June 7: bldg 34, room W120 Luke Oman (GSFC, Code 614) "Pushing Earth Climate Models to the Extremes"
June 26 *TUESDAY*: bldg 34, room W120 Conor Nixon & Rich Achterberg (GSFC, Code 693) "Modeling Infrared Spectra of Planetary Atmospheres"
June 28: bldg 34, room W120 Jose Rodriguez (GSFC, Code 614) "Photochemistry of the Earth's Atmosphere"
Bibliography
Exoplanet theory/modeling
A. Burrows & C. M. Sharp, ApJ, 512, 843 (1999) "Chemical Equilibrium Abundances in Brown Dwarf and Extrasolar Giant Planet Atmospheres"
J. J. Fortney et al., ApJ, 678, 1419 (2008) "A Unified Theory for the Atmospheres of the Hot and Very Hot Jupiters: Two Classes of Irradiated Atmospheres"
N. Madhusudhan & S. Seager, ApJ, 707, 24 (2009) "A Temperature and Abundance Retrieval Method for Exoplanet Atmospheres"
S. Seager & D. Deming, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astroph., 48, 631 (2010) "Exoplanet Atmospheres"
Exoplanet observations
D. Charbonneau et al., ApJ, 568, 377 (2002) "Detection of an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere"
A. Vidal-Madjar et al., Nature, 6928, 143 (2003) "An extended upper atmosphere around the extrasolar planet HD209458b"
D. Deming et al., Nature, 7034, 740 (2005) "Infrared radiation from an extrasolar planet"
Earth atmospheres
Planetary atmospheres
Software
planetWRF
Links
Exeter workshop on exoplanet GCMs
Exoclimes conferences
Exoplanet database
Goddard Exoplanet Seminar Series
UK's Met Office efforts
Warren Wiscombe's YouTube collection of Earth science lectures
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