Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-707-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-707-2020
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TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI): motivations and protocol version 1.0

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Atmospheric characterization of rocky exoplanets orbiting within the habitable zone of nearby M dwarf stars is around the corner with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), expected to be launch in 2021. Global climate models (GCMs) are powerful tools to model exoplanet atmospheres and to predict their habitability. However, intrinsic differences between the models can lead to various predictions. This paper presents an experiment protocol to evaluate these differences.
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