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Primary AGNI publications
Nicholls et al. (2024) JGR: Planets, doi:10.1029/2024JE008576
Nicholls et al. (2025a) MNRAS, doi:10.1093/mnras/stae2772
Nicholls et al. (2025b) JOSS, doi:10.21105/joss.07726
Nicholls et al. (2026) Nature Astronomy, doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02815-8
@article{nicholls_convective_2025,
author = {Nicholls, Harrison and Pierrehumbert, Raymond T. and Lichtenberg, Tim and Soucasse, Laurent and Smeets, Stef},
title = {{Convective shutdown in the atmospheres of lava worlds}},
journal = {Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.},
volume = {536},
number = {3},
pages = {2957--2971},
year = {2025},
month = jan,
issn = {0035-8711},
publisher = {Oxford Academic},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stae2772}
}Compiled bibliography
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