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Table A.1

Model parameters for the GCM we used to produce 1D profiles for WASP-96b

Parameter Value
Dynamical time-step Δt 25 s
Radiative time-step Δtrad 100 s
Stellar Temperature1 (T*) 5540 K
Stellar Radius1 (R*) 1.05 Rsun
Semi-major axis1 (ap) 0.0453 au
Substellar irradiation temperature2 (Tirr) 1819 K
Planetary Radius1 (Rp) 1.2 RJup
Specific heat capacity at constant pressure3 (cp) 13784 J kg−1 K−1
Specific gas constant3 (R) 3707 J kg−1 K−1
Rotation period (Prot) 3.4 days
Surface gravity (g) 826 cm s−2
Lowest pressure (ptop) 10−5 bar
Highest pressure (pbottom) 700 bar
Vertical Resolution (Nlayers) 47
Wavelength Resolution4 (S1) 11

Notes: 1. Values taken from Hellier et al. (2014), 2. Calculated using Eq. (1) from (Guillot 2010), 3. Inferred using the petitRADTRANS equilibrium package, 4. Same as Kataria et al. (2013), benchmarked in Appendix B. of Schneider et al. (2022)

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