JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020

Presentation information

[E] Oral

A (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences ) » A-OS Ocean Sciences & Ocean Environment

[A-OS25] Continental-Oceanic Mutual Interaction: Planetary scale Material Circulation

convener:Yosuke Alexandre Yamashiki(Earth & Planetary Water Resources Assessment Laboratory Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability Kyoto University), Yukio Masumoto(Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo), Swadhin Behera(Climate Variation Predictability and Applicability Research Group, Application Laboratory, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Yokohama 236-0001), Takanori Sasaki(Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University)

[AOS25-03] The inner edge of habitable zone for terrestrial exoplanets

★Invited Papers

*Takanori Kodama1 (1.University of Bordeaux)

Keywords:Exoplanet, Habitable planet

A large number of exoplanets has been detected from 1995. Some of these are expected to be Earth-sized rocky planets, probably with liquid water on their surface. Most of studies for habitable planets assumed planets with a large amount of water on its surface and estimated the climate using one-dimensional climate model. Recently, estimates using three-dimensional climate models have begun. They focus on the spatially non-uniform distribution of water in its atmosphere. However, exoplanets should have a different amount of water from the Earth's ocean.


We have investigated the climate and discussed the habitability for a planet with a small amount of water on its surface. As a result, we found that the habitable zone, in which a planet can maintain liquid water on its surface for a long term, strongly depends on the water distribution on its surface and a planet with a small amount of water on its surface has wider habitable zone than that for a planet with a large amount of water on the planetary surface.


In this presentation, we summarize the climate and the habitability for the terrestrial exo-planet and discuss perspective of habitable planets in the near future.