SIMBAD references

The distribution of a pure condensible planetary atmosphere in equilibrium with a surface reservoir is revisited, employing the energy budget of the climate system and emphasizing the atmospheric horizontal latent heat transport. This configuration is applicable to icy solar system bodies such as Triton, as well as a range of possible exoplanet atmospheres, including water or CO₂ iceballs or ocean worlds, and lava planets with mineral vapor atmospheres. Climate regimes for slowly rotating planets with the hotspot near the substellar point and for rapidly rotating planets with a warm equatorial belt are both treated. A nondimensional parameter controlling the fractional variation of the surface pressure is derived; it measures whether the pure condensible atmosphere is global or localized. The global pure condensible atmosphere with the nondimensional parameter much less than order of unity is maintained by the strong horizontal latent heat transport associated with an "evaporation/sublimation-driven flow" from warm to cold places that compensates for the incoming differential radiative forcing. We show that the variation of surface temperature can be estimated in terms of this nondimensional parameter if it is not too large. In the case of a pure water-vapor atmosphere with an ice or liquid surface, we show that the atmosphere is thick enough to maintain nearly isothermal surface conditions even when the substellar surface temperature is around the freezing point. Finally, it is proposed that the evaporation/sublimation-driven flow regime for global atmospheres could be detected via its effect on the inhomogeneous distribution of minor noncondensible components in the atmosphere.