Publications

Many papers are available as reprints with the [pdf] link after the citation, or from or institutional repository, Colin Goldblatt on UVic Space - or use the doi to get the paper via the publishers site. 

Student authors marked *.

Also, see my publication list, citations etc. at Google Scholar.  

Submitted


C. Goldblatt, Tutorial models of the climate and habitability of Proxima Centauri b: a thin atmosphere is sufficient to distribute heat given low stellar flux, submitted to Astrophys. J. Lett. arXiv:1608.07263 

In press

C. Goldblatt, The inhabitance paradox: how habitability and inhabitancy are inseparable, NASA Conference Publication, 2016 [preprint available as arXiv:1603.00950]


Published

S. Domegal-Goldman, K. Wright, and half-the-universe including C. Goldblatt, The astrobiology primer 2.0, Astrobiology, 8, 561-653,2016, doi:10.1089/ast.2015.1460. 

J. Yang, J. Leconte, E.T. Wolf, C. Goldblatt, N. Feldl, T. Merlis, Y. Wang, D.D.B. Koll, F. Ding, F. Forget, and D.S. Abbot, Differences in Water Vapor Radiative Transfer Among 1D Models Can Significantly Affect the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone, Astrophys. J. 826, 222, 2016. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/222

C. Goldblatt, Comment on Poulsen et al., "Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations", Science, 353, 132, 2016, doi:10.1126/science.aad6976.

B. Johnson* and C. Goldblatt, The nitrogen budget of Earth, Earth Sci. Rev., 148, 150-173, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.05.006, 2015. [preprint available as arXiv:1505.03813]

C. Goldblatt, Habitability of waterworlds: runaway greenhouses, atmospheric expansion and multiple climate states of pure water atmospheres, Astrobiology,  15, 362-370, doi:10.1089/ast.2014.1268, 2015. [preprint available as arXiv:1503.04835].

B. Byrne* and C. Goldblatt, Diminished greenhouse warming from Archean methane due to solar absorption lines, Clim. Past.,  11, 559-570, doi:10.5194/cp-11-559-2015, 2015. 

L. Kavenagh* and C. Goldblatt, Using raindrops to constrain past atmospheric density, Earth Plan. Sci. Lett., 413, 51-58, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.032, 2015.

B. Byrne* and C. Goldblatt, Radiative forcings for 28 potential Archean greenhouse gases, Clim. Past, 10, 1779-1801, doi:10.5194/cp-10-1779-2014, 2014. [preprint available as arXiv:1409.1880]

B. Bryne* and C. Goldblatt, Radiative forcing at high concentrations of well mixed greenhouse gases, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2014, doi:10.1002/2013GL058456

C. Goldblatt, T. D. Robinson, K. J. Zahnle and D. Crisp, Low simulated radiation limit for runaway greenhouse climates, Nature Geoscience, 6, 661-667, 2013 doi:10.1038/ngeo1892. Model output archive.

R. Barnes, K. Mullins, C. Goldblatt, V. S. Meadows, J. F. Kasting and R. Heller, Tidal Venuses: Triggering a Climate Catastrophe via Tidal Heating, Astrobiology,13(3), 225-250, 2013 doi:10.1089/ast.2012.0851 [preprint available as arXiv:1203.5104].

A. Zsom, L. Kaltenegger and C. Goldblatt, A 1D microphysical cloud model for Earth, and Earth-like exoplanets Liquid water and water ice clouds in the convective troposphere, Icarus, 221, 603-616, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.028 [preprint available as arxiv:1208.5028].

C. Goldblatt and A. J. Watson, The Runaway Greenhouse: implications for future climate change, geoengineering and planetary atmospheres, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., 370, 4197-4216, 2012, doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0004 [preprint available as arXiv:1201.1593].

B. Mills*, A. J. Watson, C. Goldblatt, R. Boyle and T. M. Lenton, Timing of Neoproterozoic glaciations linked to transport-limited global weathering, Nature Geosci., 4, 861-864, 2011, doi:10.1038/ngeo1305.

C. Goldblatt and K. J. Zahnle, Faint Young Sun Paradox remains, Nature, 474, E1, 2011, doi:10.1038/nature09961. [citations]

C. Goldblatt and K. J. Zahnle, Clouds and the Faint Young Sun Paradox, Clim. Past, 7, 203-220, 2011, doi:10.5194/cp-7-203-2011. [pdf] [preprint available as arXiv:1102.3209].
Also, see open peer review version: Clim. Past Discuss., 6, 1163-1207, 2010, doi:10.5194/cpd-6-1163-2010. [pdf] [citations | to discussion | to arXiv]

M. S. Marley, D. Saumon and C. Goldblatt, A Patchy Cloud model for the L to T Dwarf Transition, Astrophys. J. Lett., 723(1), L117, 2010, doi:10.1088/2041-8205/723/1/L117. [pdf] [preprint available as arXiv:1009.6217v1.] [citations]

C. Goldblatt, N. Sleep, K. J. Zahnle and E. G. Nisbet, The Eons of Chaos and Hades, Solid Earth, 1, 1-3, 2010, doi:10.5194/se-1-1-2010. [pdf] [citations]

C. Goldblatt, A. J. Watson and T. M. Lenton, Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation: implications for life detection, Proceedings of Bioastronomy 2007, ASP Conf. Ser., 420, 277-285, 2009. [pdf] [citations]

C. Goldblatt, A. J. Matthews, M. W. Claire, T. M. Lenton, A. J. Watson and K. J. Zahnle, Nitrogen-enhanced greenhouse warming on early Earth, Nature Geoscience, 2(12), 891-896, 2009, doi:10.1038/ngeo692. [pdf] [citations]

C. Goldblatt, T. M. Lenton and A. J. Watson, An evaluation of the longwave radiative transfer code used in the Met Office Unified Model, Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 135(640), 619-633, 2008, doi:10.1002/qj.403. [pdf] [citations]

M. T. Johnson, N. E. Vaughan, P. Goodwin, C. Goldblatt, S. Roudesl and T. M. Lenton, Why NH3 Is Not a Candidate Reagent for Ambient CO2 Fixation: A Response to “Alternative Solution to Global Warming Arising from CO2 Emissions—Partial Neutralization of Tropospheric H2CO3 with NH3”, Environ. Prog., 27(3), 412-417, 2008, doi:10.1002/ep.10298. [pdf] [citations]

C. Goldblatt, T. M. Lenton and A. J. Watson, Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation, Nature, 443, 683-686, 2006, doi:10.1038/nature05169. [pdf] [supplementary material pdf] [citations]
Correction: polynomial fit consants were truncated in the manuscript but more decimal places are needed, use p = { 0.0030084, -0.1655405, 3.2305351, -25.8343054, 71.5397861}. The value of hydrogen escape coefficient was stated incorrectly; the correct value is s = 3.7e-5. The results and conclusion are not affected (correct p is especially important to reproduce the results!)

K. W. Nicholls, et al. [22 authors including C. Goldblatt], Measurements beneath an Antarctic ice shelf using an autonomous underwater vehicle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08612, 2006, doi:10.1029/2006GL025998. [pdf] [citations]

PhD Thesis

C. Goldblatt, Bistability of atmospheric oxidation, the Great Oxidation and Climate, University of East Anglia, 2008. [pdf]