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Publications by Kaitlyn Loftus

This citation list includes papers published while the author has been on staff at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. It may include some publications based on research conducted prior to their having joined the institute.

2025

Loftus, K., Y. Luo, B. Fan, and E. Kite, 2025: Extreme weather variability on hot rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e explained by magma temperature-cloud feedback. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 122, no. 17, e2423473122, doi:10.1073/pnas.2423473122.

2021

Loftus, K., and R.D. Wordsworth, 2021: The physics of falling raindrops in diverse planetary atmospheres. J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 126, no. 4, e2020JE006653, doi:10.1029/2020JE006653.

2019

Loftus, K., R.D. Wordsworth, and C.V. Morley, 2019: Sulfate aerosol hazes and SO2 gas as constraints on rocky exoplanets' surface liquid water. Astrophys. J., 887, no. 2, 231, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab58cc.

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