The researchers can run the 3D models and then see what conditions are produced, and especially can see if they produce a possibly habitable climate and world. (manyworlds.space)
Until now, computer simulations of habitable climates on Earth - like planets have focused on their atmospheres. (sciencedaily.com)
Assuming a rotation rate similar to today, the planet could have had a habitable climate until at least 715 million years ago (SN Online: 8/26/16), even if Venus got 70 percent more sunlight than Earth does now, physicist Michael Way of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and colleagues reported in 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters. (sciencenews.org)