Adaptation of a 2-D Photochemical Model to Improve Our Understanding of Saturn's Atmosphere

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Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #11.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.499

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We report progress in adapting a two dimensional photochemical model to Saturn. Previously, this model was applied to Jupiter (Edgington, et al., 2001) to track tracers such as ammonia in the Jovian troposphere. The chemistry portion of this model has the ability to model ammonia, phosphine, and hydrocarbon photochemical families (Edgington, et al., 1999). The transport portion is based on the transport model used to model the evolution of materials deposited by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (Friedson, et al., 1999). The model is used to look at the variation of several molecules in Saturn's atmosphere accounting for the filtering of ultraviolet photons by Saturn's rings as measured by Cassini/UVIS and the thermal structure observed by Cassini/CIRS. We compare results from this model to the abundances of several molecules, e.g. propane (Simon-Miller, et al., 2005) and phosphine, derived from Cassini/CIRS, HST/FOS, and ISO data sets. Composition differences between the northern ring-shadowed atmophere and the nominal sunlit atmosphere will be examined. More research into Saturn's zonal averaged meridional circulation is needed.
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The research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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