The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology
Aomawa L. Shields

TL;DR
This review summarizes the development of exoplanet climatology, highlighting how climate models are used to assess planetary habitability and the influence of various factors on exoplanet climates.
Contribution
It provides an overview of the field's evolution, recent modeling approaches, and future research directions in understanding exoplanet habitability.
Findings
Climate models help identify potentially habitable exoplanets.
Orbital, surface, and atmospheric factors significantly influence planetary climate.
The field is rapidly evolving with new observational and modeling techniques.
Abstract
The discovery of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun has accelerated over the past decade, and this trend will continue as new space- and ground-based observatories employ next-generation instrumentation to search the skies for habitable worlds. However, many factors and processes can affect planetary habitability and must be understood to accurately determine a planet's habitability potential. While climate models have long been used to understand and predict climate and weather patterns on the Earth, a growing community of researchers has begun to apply these models to extrasolar planets. This work has provided a better understanding of how orbital, surface, and atmospheric properties affect planetary climate and habitability; how these climatic effects might change for different stellar and planetary environments; and how the habitability and observational signatures of newly…
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