Production of nitrogen and carbon species by thunderstorms on Venus

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Jun 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980icar...42..338b&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 42, June 1980, p. 338-342.

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Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Carbon, Nitrogen, Thunderstorms, Venus Atmosphere, Carbon Monoxide, Earth Atmosphere, Lightning, Photolysis, Shock Waves, Venus, Thunderstorms, Nitrogen, Carbon, Production Rates, Atmosphere, Lightning, Frequency, Optical Properties, Shock Wave, Nitric Oxide, Precipitation, Mixing, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, Photolysis, Pyrolysis, Clouds, Altitude

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The effects of the newly discovered thunderstorms on Venus upon the nitrogen and carbon species in its atmosphere were calculated. An earth-like lightning frequency of 100/sec was used for Venus, in accord with recent optical measurements by Pioneer-Venus. The rate of NO production by thunder shock waves, 2.5 x 10 to the 11th g/year, is about an order of magnitude smaller than on the earth. But on Venus, in the absence of precipitation, which is the major removal mechanism of odd nitrogen from the earth's atmosphere, the mixing ratios of odd nitrogen species might be considerably higher. The global CO production is governed by CO2 photolysis rather than by CO2 pyrolysis by lightning. However, thunderstorms produce about 2.5 x 10 to the 11th g/year of CO in the cloud layer, far from the high altitude CO2 photolysis region.

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