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atmospheric collapse: a standalone construct

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Astrobiology

condensation of a tidally locked planet's atmosphere onto its cold night side when heat transport is too weak, a threat to habitability.

In astrobiology, atmospheric collapse refers to condensation of a tidally locked planet's atmosphere onto its cold night side when heat transport is too weak, a threat to habitability. This meaning comes from Joshi (1997) in Icarus.[1]

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References

Joshi, M. M., Haberle, R. M., & Reynolds, R. T. (1997). Simulations of the Atmospheres of Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs: Conditions for Atmospheric Collapse and the Implications for Habitability. Icarus, 129(2), 450-465. https://doi.org/10.1006/icar.1997.5793

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