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American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 5(92)

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.052717

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Spatial interactions in a modified Daisyworld model: Heat diffusivity and greenhouse effects

Journal article published in 2015 by T. Alberti, L. Primavera, A. Vecchio ORCID, F. Lepreti, V. Carbone ORCID
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Abstract

In this work we investigate a modified version of the Daisyworld model, originally introduced by Lovelock and Watson to describe in a simple way the interactions between an Earth-like planet, its biosphere, and the incoming solar radiation. Here a spatial dependency on latitude is included, and both a variable heat diffusivity along latitudes and a simple greenhouse effect description are introduced in the model. We show that the spatial interactions between the variables of the system can locally stabilize the coexistence of the two vegetation types. The feedback on albedo is able to generate equilibrium solutions which can efficiently self-regulate the planet climate, even for values of the solar luminosity relatively far from the current Earth conditions.