The upper atmosphere of Uranus - Mean temperature and temperature variations

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Jan 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980apj...235..274d&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 235, Jan. 1, 1980, p. 274-284.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Atmospheric Temperature, Temperature Profiles, Upper Atmosphere, Uranus Atmosphere, Atmospheric Density, Atmospheric Pressure, Photochemical Reactions, Solar Heating, Temperature Inversions, Temperature Measurement, Uranus, Atmosphere, Temperatures, Density, Pressure, Observations, Kao, Infrared, Wavelengths, Emissions, Occultations, Structure, Refractivity, Data, Models, Waves, Characteristics, Procedure, Ethane, Methane, Mixing

Scientific paper

The number-density, pressure, and temperature profiles of the Uranian atmosphere in the pressure interval from 0.3 to 30 dynes/sq cm are derived from observations of the occultation of SAO 158687 by Uranus on 1977 March 10, observations made from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory and the Cape Town station of the South African Astronomical Observatory. The mean temperature is found to be about 95 K, but peak-to-peak variations from 10 K to 20 K or more exist on a scale of 150 km or 3 scale heights. The existence of a thermal inversion is established, but the inversion is much weaker than the analogous inversion on Neptune. The mean temperature can be explained by solar heating in the 3.3 micron methane band with a methane mixing ratio of 4 x 10 to the -6th combined with the cooling effect of ethane with a mixing ratio of not greater than 4 x 10 to the -6th. The temperature variations are probably due to a photochemical process that has formed a Chapman layer.

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