Comparative Climates of the Trappist-1 Planetary System: Results from a Simple Climate-vegetation Model

@article{Alberti2017ComparativeCO,
  title={Comparative Climates of the Trappist-1 Planetary System: Results from a Simple Climate-vegetation Model},
  author={Tommaso Alberti and Vincenzo Carbone and Fabio Lepreti and Antonio Vecchio},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2017},
  volume={844},
  pages={19}
}
The recent discovery of the planetary system hosted by the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could open new paths for investigations of the planetary climates of Earth-sized exoplanets, their atmospheres, and their possible habitability. In this paper, we use a simple climate-vegetation energy-balance model to study the climate of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets and the climate dependence on various factors: the global albedo, the fraction of vegetation that could cover their surfaces, and the… 
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