Radiative forcing of the Venus mesosphere. II - Thermal fluxes, cooling rates, and radiative equilibrium temperatures

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Feb 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989icar...77..391c&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 77, Feb. 1989, pt. 1, p. 391-413.

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Mesosphere, Pioneer Venus Spacecraft, Planetary Temperature, Radiative Transfer, Venus Atmosphere, Aerosols, Infrared Radiometers, Molecular Clouds, Optical Properties, Polar Regions, Solar Radiation, Sulfuric Acid, Temperature Measurement, Venus, Atmosphere, Mesosphere, Thermal Effects, Cooling, Polar Regions, Radiative Transfer, Pvo Mission, Temperature, Gradients, Heating, Depth, Structure, Oir Instrument, Calculations, Equilibrium, Carbon Dioxide, Ultraviolet, Wavelengths, Absorption, Water Vapor, Sulfu

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A radiative heat-transfer model is presently used to ascertain the way in which radiative forcing contributes to the up to 20 K higher temperature of the Venus polar regions, by comparison with the tropics, in the 60-100 km mesospheric levels. Model global-mean radiative equilibrium temperatures for 55-100 km are compared with observations to show how each opacity source contributes to the thermal structure. The results obtained from latitude-dependent radiative equilibrium experiments indicate that meridional variations in radiative forcing obliterate observed mesospheric temperature gradients and yield polar temperatures up to 40 K cooler than the tropics.

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