Nick Cowan
Northwestern University
The three most important periodic climate forcings are: the day-night cycle (due to a planet's rotation), 2) eccentricity seasons (due to its non-circular orbit), and 3) obliquity seasons (caused by a tilted spin axis). I will describe how a planet's heat storage and heat transport affect its response to these forcings. I will then describe how these three forcings can be observed in extrasolar planetary systems, and what this tells us about these distant world's climate.
Wednesday, January 11th at Noon
Room F235, Technological Institute
