TLC: Tidally Locked Coordinates
Abstract
Tidally Locked Coordinates converts global climate model (GCM) output from standard/Earth-like coordinates into a tidally locked coordinate system. The transformations in Tidally Locked Coordinates are useful for plotting and analyzing GCM simulations of slowly rotating tidally locked planets such as Earth-like planets inside the habitable zone of small stars. They can be used to leverage the fact that a slowly rotating planet's climate will start to look approximately symmetric about the axis of insolation.
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- November 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020ascl.soft11013K
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- Software