Eric T. Wolf, Ph.D.

overview

Over the past decade I have worked on numerous NASA sponsored projects that cross boundaries between climate, planetary, and space sciences. I have studied numerous topics including the evolution of Earth's climate through time, the Faint Young Sun Paradox, moist and runaway greenhouse climates for future Earth, the habitability of extrasolar planets, the characterization extrasolar planets through transmission and thermal emission spectra, and the microphysical and optical properties of fractal aggregate aerosols.

My primary tools are 3D general circulation models, radiative transfer models, and cloud and aerosol microphysical models. I am perhaps most known for developing and supporting ExoCAM, an extension of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Community Earth System Model that facilitates modeling of exotic (non-Earth-like) atmospheres. At the heart of ExoCAM is a ExoRT, a flexible two-stream correlated-K radiative transfer model. ExoCAM and ExoRT are used by many research teams around the world. I maintain strong interest in open-source software and building tools that are broadly useful to the community.

current postion

Research Scientist
University of Colorado, Boulder
Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics

education

B.S. Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, 2007
Ph.D. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2014

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recent highlights

  • [October 7th, 2025]   New paper on TRAPPIST-1 e chemistry, climate and transmission spectral modeling. This work takes a novel approach of considering a quasi-monte Carlo sparse grid while employing Kriging (i.e. gaussian process emulation) to emulate the full parameter space. See our work published here.
  • [June 17th, 2025]   Awarded new NASA Habitable Worlds Program grant. Selected as Institutional PI for "Exploring the Influence of Hazes on Climate and Spectra of Small Planets Around FGK Stars." The program will run from 2025 to 2028, where I will conduct simulations with ExoCAM-CARMA.
  • [April 1st, 2025]   Talk at the Aspen Center for Physics discussing sparse grid modeling and thermal emission phase curves.

projects

Earth Climates Past, Present, and Future

The evolution of Earth's climate past present and future. Over the course oy my career I have used 3D models to investigate how Earth's climate system evolves due to radiative and cloud effects. I have studied solutions to the so-called Faint Young Sun Paradox (i.e. how did the ancient Earth stay warm and habitable despite ~25% less solar energy), the fate of Earth in the distant future as the Sun gradually brightens over time, the co-evolution and climate sensitivity due to changes in CO2 and the solar constant, and the effect of fractal aggregate hazes on early Earth. Work continues with colleagues and collaborators on paleoclimates and future Earth scenarios.

Modeling (exo)Planetary Atmospheres

Using 3D climate models to map the habitable zone and predict observations. I use 3D climate models to explore extrasolar planets and the so-called "habitable zone." Studies have included specific planet targets (TRAPPIST-1 e, TOI-700 d , GJ 251 c Kepler-1649 c , generic tidally locked terrestrial planets around M-dwarf stars, and circumbinary planets . My work has been foundational in mapping the habitable zone and exploring concepts on the runaway and moist greenhouse processes, and cloud-convection feedbacks. As always, my end-goal is to connect simulations of planetary atmospheres to observable metrics.

ExoCAM/ExoRT Open-Source Tools for Climate Modeling

Primary developer and maintainer for ExoCAM. ExoCAM is a 3D climate model for exoplanet atmospheres based on the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model (CESM). ExoCAM expands CESM users to simulate a wide variety of planetary atmospheres, relevant to past, present, and future Earth, solar system bodies, and extrasolar planets. At the heart of ExoCAM, is ExoRT, a flexible two-stream correlated-k radiative transfer model which expands the model capabilities to allow diverse atmospheric compositions, and input stellar spectra. ExoCAM and ExoRT are currently used by research groups on 3 continents, studying topics from Earth's future climate, terrestrial M-dwarf planets, mini-Neptune planets, planets around white dwarf stars, among other topics. The code is publicly available on GitHub for ExoCAM and ExoRT. I am committed to building robust, open-source software for the global planetary science community.

publications

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In preparation

  • [73] Lincowski, A.P., Meadows, V.S., Crisp, D., Wolf, E.T., and Robinson, T.D. "Bridging Two Worlds: Introduction of a New Two-Column Climate Model for Terrestrial Exoplanet Studies and Application to JWST Observations of TRAPPIST-1 b and c." In preparation for Fall 2025 submission.
  • [72] Way, M.J., Wolf, E.T., and Wilmes, S.-B. "Killing the Faint Young Sun Paradox: an exploration of Foarchean climate." In preparation for Fall 2025 submission.

Submitted, in revision, or in press

  • [71] Haqq-Misra, J. and Wolf, E.T. "Maximum Lifetime of the Vegetative Biosphere." Submitted to JGR-Atmospheres.
  • [70] Wogan, N.F., Batalha, B.E., Zahnle, K., Krissansen-Totten, Catling, D.C., Wolf, E.T., Robinson, T.D. Meadows, V., Arney, G., and Domagal-Goldman, S. "The Open-Source Photochem Code: A General Chemical and Climate Model for Interpretting (Exo) Planet Observations." Accepted at The Planetary Science Journal.
  • [69] Yang, H., Wolf, E.T., Liu, C.-C. Zhan, Y., Toon, O.B., and Abbot, D.S. "The effect of planetary rotation period on clouds in a GCM with a bin microphysics model." Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.
  • [68] Airapetian, V., Kobayashi, K., Udo, T., Mouri, S., Kebukawa, Y., Fukuda, H., Oguri, Y., Way, M., Gronoff, G., and Wolf,E.T. "Production Rates of Nitrous Oxide and Biomolecules in Primitive Atmospheres of Early Earth and Rocky Exoplanets." Submitted to Nature Astronomy.
  • [67] Fuji, Y., Angerhausen, D., Matsuo and Wolf, E.T. "Probing thermal gradient of habitable-zone rocky planets with direct imaging as an anti-indicator of global surface ocean." Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.

First author refereed

  • [66] Wolf, E.T., Schwieterman, E.W., Haqq-Misra, J., Fauchez, T.J., et al. (2025) "Chemistry, Climate, and Transmission Spectra of Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1e Explored with a Multimodel Sparse Sampled Ensemble." The Planetary Science Journal 6:231 (30pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ae031e
  • [65] Wolf, E.T., Kopparapu, R., Haqq-Misra, J. and Fauchez, T.J. (2022) "ExoCAM: A 3D Climate Model for Exoplanet Atmospheres." The Planetary Science Journal THAI Focus Issue, 3:7 (17pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac3f3d
  • [64] Wolf, E.T., Haqq-Misra, J., Kopparapu, R.K., Fauchez, T., Welsh, W.F., Kane, S.R., Kostov, V., and Siegfried, E. (2020) "The Resilience of Habitable Climates Around Circumbinary Stars." J. Geophys. Res. Planets. 125, e2020JE006576, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006576
  • [63] Wolf, E.T., Kopparapu, R.K., and Haqq-Misra, J. (2019) "Simulated Phase Dependent Water Vapor and Cloud Spectra of Synchronously Rotating Aquaplanets." The Astrophysical Journal 877:35 (18 pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab184a
  • [62] Wolf, E.T., Haqq-Misra, J., and Toon, O.B. (2018) "Evaluating Climate Sensitivity to $CO_{2}$ Across Earth's History." JGR-Atmospheres, 123, 21, 11861-11874, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029262
  • [61] Wolf, E.T. (2017) "Assessing the Habitability of the TRAPPIST-1 System Using a 3D Climate Model." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 839:L.1 (6pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa693a
  • [60] Wolf, E.T., Shields, A.L., Kopparapu, R.K., Haqq-Misra, J., and Toon, O.B. (2017) "Constraints on Climate and Habitability for Earth-like Exoplanets Determined from a General Circulation Model." The Astrophysical Journal 837:107 (11pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa5ffc
  • [59] Wolf, E.T. and Toon, O.B. (2015) "The evolution of habitable climates under the brightening Sun." JGR-Atmospheres 120(12) 5775-5794, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023302
  • [58] Wolf, E.T. and Toon, O.B. (2014) "Controls on the Archean climate system investigated with a global climate model." Astrobiology 14(3) 241-252, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2013.1112
  • [57] Wolf, E.T. and Toon, O.B. (2014) "Delayed onset of runaway and moist greenhouse climates for Earth." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41, 1, 167-172, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058376
  • [56] Wolf, E.T. and Toon, O.B. (2013) "Hospitable Archean Climates Simulated by a General Circulation Model." Astrobiology 13(7) 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2012.0936
  • [55] Wolf, E.T. and Toon O.B. (2010) "The Hazy Details of Early Earth's Atmosphere Response." Science 330, 754-755, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.330.6005.754-b
  • [54] Wolf, E.T. and Toon O.B. (2010) "Fractal Organic Hazes Provided an Ultraviolet Shield for Early Earth." Science 328, 1266-1268, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1183260

Second author refereed

  • [53] Shields, A.L., Wolf, E.T., Agol, E., and Tremblay, P.E. (2025) "Increased Surface Temperatures of Habitable White Dwarf Worlds Relative to Main-sequence Exoplanets." The Astrophysical Journal, 979:45 (13 pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9827
  • [52] Haqq-Misra, J., Wolf, E.T., Fauchez, T.J., and Kopparapu, R.K. (2024) "Interpolation and synthesis of sparse samples in exoplanet atmospheric modeling." The Planetary Science Journal 5, 140, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad50a7
  • [51] Haqq-Misra, J., Wolf, E.T., Fauchez, T.J., Shields, A.L., and Kopparapu, R.K. (2022) "The SparseAtmospheric Model Sampling Analysis (SAMOSA) Intercomparison: Motivations and Protocol version 1.0: A CUISINES Model Intercomparison." The Planetary Science Journal 3:260 (10pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac9479
  • [50] Suissa G., Wolf, E.T., Kopparapu, R.k., Villanueva, G.L., Fauchez, T., Mandell, A.M., Arney, G., Gilbert, E.A., Schlieder, J.E., Barclay, T., Quintana, E.V., Lopez, E.D., Rodriguez, J.E., and Vanderburg, A. (2020) "The First Habitable Zone Earth-size Planet from TESS. III: Climate States and Characterization Prospects for TOI-700 d." The Astronomical Journal, 160:118 (19pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aba4b4
  • [49] Charnay, B., Wolf, E.T., Marty, B. and Forget, F. (2020) "Is the Faint Young Sun Paradox for Earth Solved?" Space Science Reviews 216:90, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00711-9
  • [48] Haqq-Misra, J., Wolf, E.T., Welsh, W., Kopparapu, R., Kostov, V., and Kane, S. (2019) "Constraining the Magnitude of Climate Extremes From Time-Varying Installation on a Circumbinary Terrestrial Planet." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 124, 12, 3231-3243, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006222
  • [47] Chen, H., Wolf, E.T., Zhan, Z.., and Horton, D.E. (2019) "Habitability and Spectroscopic Observability of Warm M-dwarf Exoplanets Evaluated with a 3D Chemistry-Climate Model." The Astrophysical Journal 886:16, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4f7e
  • [46] Badhan, M.A., Wolf, E.T., Kopprapu, R.K., Kempton, E.M.-R., Arney, G., Domagal-Goldman, S.D., and Deming, D. (2019) "Stellar Activity Effects on Moist Habitable Terrestrial Atmospheres." The Astrophysical Journal 887:34 (11pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab32e8
  • [45] Chen, H, Wolf, E.T., Kopparapu, R., Domagal-Goldman, S., and Horton, D.E. (2018) "Biosignature Anisotropy Modeled on Temperate Tidally-Locked M-dwarf Planets." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 868:L6, https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaedb2
  • [44] Haqq-Misra, J., Wolf, E.T., Joshi, M., Zhang, X., and Kopparapu, R.K. (2018) "Demarcating circulation regimes of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets within the habitable zone." The Astrophysical Journal 852:67 (16 pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9f1f
  • [43] Kopparapu, R.K., Wolf, E.T., Arney, G., Batalha, N., Haqq-Misra, J., Grimm, S.L. and Heng, K. (2017) "Habitable Moist-Greenhouse Atmospheres Around Low Mass Stars." The Astrophysical Journal 845:5 (16pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7cf9
  • [42] Kopparapu, R.K., Wolf, E.T., Haqq-Misra, J., Yang, J., Kasting, J.F., Meadows, V., Terrien, R., and Mahadevan, S. (2016) "The Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Synchronously Rotating Planets Around Low Mass Stars Using General Circulation Models." The Astrophysical Journal 819:84 (14pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/84

Other author refereed

  • [41] Goodis Gordon, K.E., Karalidi, T., Bott, K.M., Vancil, J., Millar-Blanchaer, M.A., Wogan, N.F., and Wolf, E.T. (2025) "Polarized Signatures of Variable Worlds: Modeling Heterogeneous Habitable Earth- and Early Mars-like (Exo)planets." The Astrophysical Journal, 993:36 (16pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae07df
  • [40] Beard, C., Robertson, P., Lubin, J., Mahadevan, S., Stefansson, G., Wright, J.T., Wolf, E.T., et al. (2025) "Discovery of a Nearby Habitable Zone Super-Earth Candidate Amenable to Direct Imaging." The Astrophysical Journal 170:279 (27pp) https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0e20
  • [39] Tsigaridis, K., Ackerman, A.S., Aleinov, I., Chandlar, M.A., Clune, T.L., Colose, C.M., Del Genio, A.D., Kelley, M., Kiang, N., Leboisseteir, A., Perlwitz, J.P., Ruedy, R.A., Russell, G.L., Sohl, L.E., Way, M.J., and Wolf, E.T. (2025) "ROCKE-3D 2.0: an updated general circulation model for simulating the climates of rocky planets." Geoscientific Model Development 18, 5825-5871, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-5825-2025
  • [38] Hammond, T., Komacek, T.D., Kopparapu, R., Fauchez, T.J., Mandell, A., Wolf, E.T., Kofman, V., Kane, S.R., Johnson, T.M., Desai, A., Arney, G., and Crouse, J. (2025) "The climates and thermal emission spectra of prime nearby temperate rocky exoplanet targets." The Planetary Science Journal, 984:181 (16pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc73b
  • [37] Deitrick, R., Goldblatt, C., Wolf, E.T., and Robinson, T.D. (2025) "Oxidizing ExoCAM: Introducing the Radiative Effects of Oxygen and Ozone into the ExoCAM General Circulation Model." The Planetary Science Journal, 6:8 (15pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/ad9900
  • [36] Venkatesan, V., Shields, A.L., Deitrick, R., Wolf, E.T., and Rushby, A. (2025) "A One- Dimensional Energy Balance Model Parameterization for the Formation of CO2 Ice on the Surfaces of Eccentric Extrasolar Planets." Astrobiology, 25, 1, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2023.0103
  • [35] Yang, H., Komacek, T.D., Toon, O.B., Wolf, E.T., Robinson, T.D., Chael, C., and Abbot, D.S. (2024) "Impact of Planetary Parameters on Water Cloud Microphysics." The Astrophysical Journal, 966, 152, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3242
  • [35] Eager-Nash, J.K., Mayne, N.J., Nicholson, A.E., Prins, J.E., Young, O.C.F., Daines, S.J., Sergeev, D.E., Lambert, F.H., Manners, J., Boutle, I.A., Wolf, E.T., Kamp, I.E.E., Kohary, K. and Lenton, T.M. (2023) "3D climate simulations of the Archean find that methane has a strong cooling effect at high concentrations." JGR-Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD037544, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037544
  • [34] Lobo, A.H., Shields, A.L, Palubski, I.Z.., and Wolf, E.T. (2023) "Terminator Habitability: The Case for Limited Water Availability on M-dwarf Planets." The Astrophysical Journal. 945:161 (13pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aca970
  • [33] Kossakowski, D. Kurster, M., Trifonov, T. et al. including Wolf, E.T. (2023) "The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Wolf 1069 b: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby very low mass star." Astron. Astrophys. 670, A84, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245322
  • [32] Christie, D.A., Lee, E.K.H., Innes, H., Noti, P.A., Charnay, B. et al. including Wolf, E.T. (2022) "CAMEMBERT A Mini-Neptunes GCM Intercomparison, Protocol Version 1.0. A CUISINES Model Intercomparison Project." The Planetary Science Journal, 3, 261, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac9dfe
  • [31] Turbet, M., Fauchez, T.J., Sergeev, D.E., Boutle, I.A., Tsigaridis, K., Way, M.J., Wolf, E.T., Domagal-Goldman, S.D., Forget, F., Haqq-Misra, J., Kopparapu, R.K., Lambert, F.H., Manners, J., Mayne, N.J., and Sohl, L. (2022) "The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part I: Dry Cases - The fellowship of the GCMs." The Planetary Science Journal 3:211 (17pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf0
  • [30] Sergeev, D.E., Fauchez, T.J., Turbet, M., Boutle, I.A., Tsigaridis, K., Way, M.J., Wolf, E.T., Domagal-Goldman, S.D., Forget, F., Haqq-Misra, J., Kopparapu, R.K., Lambert, F.H., Manners, J., and Mayne, N.J. (2022) "The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part II: Moist Cases - The Two Waterworlds." The Planetary Science Journal, 3:212 (26pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf2
  • [29] Fauchez, T.J., Villaneuva, G. Sergeev, D.E.,, Turbet, M., Boutle, I.A., Tsigaridis, K., Way, M.J., Wolf, E.T., Domagal-Goldman, S.D., Forget, F., Haqq-Misra, J., Kopparapu, R.K., Lambert, F.H., Manners, J., and Mayne, N.J. (2022) "The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part III: Simulated Observables - The return of the spectrum." Planetary Science Journal 3:213 (17pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf1
  • [28] Vidaurri, M.R., Bastelberger, S.T., Wolf, E.T., Domagal-Goldman, S., Kopparapu, R.K. (2022) "The Outer Edge of the Venus Zone Arouund Main Sequence Stars." The Planetary Science Journal, 3, 137, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac68e2
  • [27] Guzewich, S. Way, M., Aleinov, I., Wolf, E.T., Del Genio, A.D., Wordsworth, R., & Tsigaridis, K. (2021) "3D Simulations of the Early Martian Hydrological Cycle Mediated by a $H_{2}-CO_{2}$ Greenhouse." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planet, 126, e2021JE006825, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006825
  • [26] Colose, C., Haqq-Misra, J., Del Genio, A.D., Barnes, A.D., Wolf, E.T., Way, M., & Ruedy, R. (2021) "Effects of Spin-Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone." The Astrophysical Journal, 921:25 (33pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac135c
  • [25] Fauchez, T., Turbet, M., Sergeev, D., et al. including Wolf, E.T. (31 authors total). (2021) "TRAPPIST Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI) workshop report." The Planetary Science Journal THAI Focus Issue, 2:106 (28pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/abf4df
  • [24] Kane, S.R., Li, Z., Wolf, E.T., Osterberg, C. and Hill, M.L. (2021) "Eccentricity Driven Climate Effect in the Kepler-1649 System." The Astronomical Journal, 161:31 (9pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abcbfd
  • [23] Rushby, A.J., Shields, A.L., Wolf, E.T., Lague, M., and Burgasser, A. (2021) "The Effect of Land-Albedo Feedback on the climate of Land-Dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System." The Astrophysical Journal, 904:124 (14pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abbe04
  • [22] Chen, H., Zhan, Z, Youngblood, A., Wolf, E.T., Feinstein, A.D and Horton, D.E. (2021) "Persistence of Flare-Driven Atmospheric Chemistry on Rocky Habitable Zone Worlds." Nature Astronomy 5, 298-310, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01264-1
  • [21] Turbet, M., Bolmont, E., Bourrier, V., Demory, B.-O., Leconte, J. and Wolf, E.T. (2020) "A Review of Possible Planetary Atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System." Space Science Reviews, 216, 100, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00719-1
  • [20] Gilbert, E.W., Barclay, T., Schlieder, J.E., Quintana, E.V., Hord, B.J., Kostov, V.B., Lopez, E.D. et al., including Wolf, E.T. (2020) "The First Habitable Zone Earth-size Planet from TESS. I: Validation of the TOI-700 System." The Astronomical Journal, 160, 3, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aba4b2
  • [19] Kostov, V.B., Orosz, J.A., Feinstein, A.D., Welsh, W.F., Cukier, W. et al., including Wolf, E.T. (2020) "ΤΟΙ-1338: TESS' First Transiting Circumbinary Planet." The Astrophysical Journal, 159, 253 (26pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8a48
  • [18] Suissa, G., Mandell, A., Wolf, E.T., Villanueva, G.L., Fauchez, T., and Kopparapu, R. (2020) "Dim Prospects for Transmission Spectra of Ocean Earths Around M Stars." The Astrophysical Journal 891, 57, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab72f9
  • [17] Fauchez, T., Turbet, M, Wolf, E.T., Boutle, I., Way, M.J., Del Genio, A.D., Mayne, N.J., Tsigaridis, K., Kopparapu, R.K., Yang, J., Forget, F., Mandel, A., and Domagal-Goldman, S.D. (2020) "TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI): motivations and protocol version 1.0." Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 707-716, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-707-2020
  • [16] Komacek, T., Fauchez, T., Wolf, E.T., and Abbot D.S. (2020) "Clouds will likely prevent the detection of water vapor in JWST transmission spectra of terrestrial exoplanets." The Astrophysical Journal 888:L20 (6pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab6200
  • [15] Hu, R., Peterson, L, and Wolf, E.T. (2020) "O2 and CO-rich Atmospheres for Potentially Habitable Environments on TRAPPIST-1 Planets." The Astrophysical Journal 888:122 (15pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5f07
  • [14] Fauchez, T., Turbet, M, Villanueva, G.L., Wolf, E.T., Arney, G., Kopparapu, R.K., Lincowski, A., Mandell, A., deWit, J., Pidhorodetska, D., Domagal-Goldman, S.D., and Stevenson, K.B. (2019) "Impact of Clouds and Hazes in the Simulates JWST Transmission Spectra of Habitable Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System." The Astrophysical Journal 887:194, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5862
  • [13] Cukier, W., Kopprarapu, R., Kane, S.R., Welsh, W., Wolf, E.T., Kostov, V., and Haqq-Misra, J. (2019) "Habitable Zone Boundaries for Circumbinary Planets." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131:124402 (5pp), https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab50cb
  • [12] Komacek, T.D., Jansen, M.F., Wolf, E.T., and Abbot, D.S. (2019) "Scaling Relations for Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres from Baroclinic Criticality." The Astrophysical Journal 883:46 (8pp), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3980
  • [11] Yu, P., Toon, O.B., Bardeen, C.G., Zhu, Y., Rosenlof, K.H., Portmann, R.W., Thornberry, T.D., Gao, R.-S., Davis, S.M., Wolf, E.T., de Gouw, J., Peterson, D.A., Fromm, M.D., and Robock, A. (2019) "Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high in to the stratosphere to form a persistent plume." Science 365, 587-590, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax1748
  • [10] Aleinov, I., Harman, C., Tsigardis, C., Way, M.J., Wolf, E.T., and Gronoff, G. (2019) "Modeling a Transient Secondary Paleolunar Atmosphere: 3-D Simulations and Analysis" Geophysical Research Letters 46, 10, 5107-5116, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082494
  • [9] Yang, J., Leconte, J., Wolf, E.T., Merlis, T., Koll, D.D.B., Forget, F., and Abbot, D.S. (2019) "Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: A 3D Model Intercomparison." The Astrophysical Journal 875, 46, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f1
  • [8] Adams, A.D., Boos, W.R. and Wolf, E.T. (2019) "Aquaplanet Models on Eccentric Orbits: Effects of Rotation Rate on Observables." The Astrophysical Journal 157,189, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab107f
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Other written works

  • [2] Wolf, E.T., Kopparapu, R.K., Airapetian, V., Fauchez, T., Guzewich, S., Kane, S.R., Pidhorodetska, D., Way, M.J. and 22 co-signors. (2020) "The Importance of 3D General Circulation Models for Characterizing the Climate Habitability of Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets." Astro2020 Science White Paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05012
  • [1] Kopparapu, R.K., Wolf, E.T., and Meadows, V.S. (2020) "Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability." Book Chapter in Planetary Astrobiology, University of Arizona Press, Space Science Series, https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04441

about me

I'm lucky to call the mountains of Breckenridge, Colorado my home where I live with my wife and our two Giant Schnauzers. Living at 9,600 feet provides a great backdrop for my main hobbies: skiing in the winter and mountain biking in the summer. I also recently started playing tennis again after a 20 year break, I ceaselessly listen to music (electronic and '90s), and I dabble in investing, philosophy, mindfulness, yoga, travel, reading, and experiencing life to its fullest.