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Maintaining Stable, Habitable Climates in Different Tectonic Regimes

A diagram of the model planet (not to scale), showing the different processes that affect the planetary surface temperature: heating from the Sun, the interior, and molten rock brought to the surface by volcanism, as well as the backscattering of thermal radiation by greenhouse gases and the heat of evaporation and turbulent exchange between surface and atmosphere. Each of these is described in more detail in the paper below.
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