Monday, May 8, 2017

Quick Look: The Thermal Structure of the Venus Atmosphere


Summary

For two years beginning in 2013, a large team led by Sanjay Limaye set out to combine and compare the following:
  • Venusian atmospheric data collected by probes in the 1970s and 1980s (used to create the Venus International Reference Atmosphere, or VIRA)
  • Venus Express data on the vertical and horizontal structure of the atmosphere
  • Earth-based observations of the upper atmosphere temperature structure of Venus made since VIRA
Figure 1a: Vertical coverage of post-VIRA atmospheric structure experiments.

This work is seen as the first step toward creating an updated VIRA model. You can read it here.

Reference:

  • Limaye, S., Lebonnois, S., Mahieux, A., Pätzold, M., Bougher, S., Bruinsma, S., Chamberlain, S., Clancy, R., Gérard, J., Gilli, G., Grassi, D., Haus, R., Herrmann, M., Imamura, T., Kohler, E., Krause, P., Migliorini, A., Montmessin, F., Pere, C., Persson, M., Piccialli, A., Rengel, M., Rodin, A., Sandor, B., Sornig, M., Svedhem, H., Tellmann, S., Tanga, P., Vandaele, A., Widemann, T., Wilson, C., Müller-Wodarg, I., & Zasova, L. (2017). The Thermal Structure of the Venus Atmosphere: Intercomparison of Venus Express and Ground Based Observations of Vertical Temperature and Density Profiles Icarus DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.04.020
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