Net thermal radiation in the atmosphere of Venus

Details Net thermal radiation in the atmosphere of Venus Net thermal radiation in the atmosphere of Venus

Mar 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icar...61..521r&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 61, March 1985, p. 521-538.

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Atmospheric Heat Budget, Thermal Radiation, Venus Atmosphere, Atmospheric Composition, Atmospheric Moisture, Pioneer Venus Spacecraft, Radiative Heat Transfer, Venus Clouds, Venus, Thermal Properties, Radiation, Atmosphere, Pioneer Venus, Probes, Flux, Latitudes, Small Probe Net Flux Radiometer, Snfr, Clouds, Radiative Transfer, Comparisons, Calculations, Opacity, Infrared, Altitude, Cooling, Water Vapor, Mixing, Circulation

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Estimates of the true atmospheric net fluxes at the four Pioneer Venus entry sites are presently obtained through corrections of measured values that are relatively small for the case of the clouds, but generally large deeper in the atmosphere. The correction procedure for both the small and large probe fluxes used model results near 14 km to establish the size of the correction. The thermal net fluxes obtained imply that the contribution of mode 3 particles to the IR opacity of the middle and lower clouds is smaller than indicated by the Pioneer Venus cloud particle spectrometer measurements, and the day probe results favor a reduction of only about 50 percent. The fluxes at all sites imply that a yet-undetermined source of considerable opacity is present in the upper cloud. Beneath the clouds, the thermal net fluxes generally increase with increasing latitude.

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