Nitrogen-enhanced greenhouse warming on early Earth

By C. Goldblatt, M. Claire, T. Lenton, A. Matthews, A. Watson, K. Zahnle. 2009

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology

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Origin and evolution of the atmospheres of early Venus, Earth and Mars (2018, background): “The current amount of nitrogen in Earth’s crust and mantle is highly uncertain and estimated between surface partial pressures of 0.32 - 5.6 bar (e.g., Goldblatt et al. 2009, Johnson and Goldblatt 2015; Marty 1995; Marty and Dauphas 2003).”
The Nitrogen Budget of Earth (2015, methodology): “Our work not only suggests a higher N mass in the BSE than previous work (Goldblatt et al., 2009), but also arrives at approximately the same value from two independent tactics.”
Low simulated radiation limit for runaway greenhouse climates (2013, background): “Earth’s atmospheric nitrogen inventory has likely changed with time[29].”
The faint young Sun problem (2012, background): “Although nitrogen is not a greenhouse gas in itself, a higher partial pressure of atmospheric nitrogen during the Archean would amplify the greenhouse impact of other gases by broadening of absorption lines [Goldblatt et al., 2009].”
THE EVOLUTION OF SOLAR FLUX FROM 0.1 nm TO 160 μm: QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES FOR PLANETARY STUDIES (2012, unknown): “Figure 4(b) represents a first-order improvement on this correction by factors ranging up to 2 in the near-UV and a few percent in the visible, the latter of which affects calculations of paleo-temperatures by ∼1 ◦C (Goldblatt et al. 2009).”
WATER LOSS FROM TERRESTRIAL PLANETS WITH CO2-RICH ATMOSPHERES (2013, unknown): “ared and Rayleigh scattering in the visible. These eects tend to partially cancel out, with the result that the eect of doubling atmospheric N 2 on Earth is a small increase in surface temperature (Goldblatt et al. 2009). Hydrogen-nitrogen CIA can cause ecient warming in cases when the hydrogen cont”
GLIESE 581D IS THE FIRST DISCOVERED TERRESTRIAL-MASS EXOPLANET IN THE HABITABLE ZONE (2011, background): “the warming due to other greenhouse gases like CH4 or buffer gases like N2 or Ar (von Paris et al. 2010; Goldblatt et al. 2009; Li et al. 2009).”
Nitrogen Isotopes and Mantle Geodynamics: The Emergence of Life and the Atmosphere–Crust–Mantle Connection (2013, background): “Mass balance considerations also support massive exchange between the Earth’s surface and the mantle, with an inferred decrease in atmospheric N pressure by a factor of ~2–3 (Goldblatt et al. 2009).”