Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978stia...7910744g&link_type=abstract
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt, International Symposium on Exploration of the Planetary System, Munich, West Germ
Physics
Atmospheric Heat Budget, Gas Giant Planets, Infrared Spectra, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Radiation, Planetary Structure, Temperature Profiles, Abundance, Atmospheric Heating, Atmospheric Temperature, Emissivity, Jupiter Atmosphere, Neptune (Planet), Planetary Temperature, Saturn Atmosphere, Stratosphere, Uranus (Planet)
Scientific paper
The paper reports the atmospheric thermal structure of the four giant planets as determined by a new iterative inversion technique for treating infrared data. The effective temperature values calculated from the retrieved profiles show that Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune have strong internal heating sources while Uranus has a very small source or no source. For Neptune, the infrared spectrum indicates an amount of methane in the Neptunian stratosphere which is significantly larger than the amount expected on the basis of solar abundances; it had also been assumed that the methane would be condensed at the low temperatures in the vicinity of the Neptunian tropopause.
Courtin Regis
Gautier Daniel
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