Aerosol Heating in the Stratosphere of Jupiter

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Oct 2010

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #11.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.1019

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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This work is composed of two parts. First, latitudinal and vertical distributions of Jovian stratospheric aerosols are retrieved based on the Cassini ISS (Imaging Science Subsystem) images in the strong methane absorption band at 890 nm and previous work by Banfield et al. (Icarus, 134, 11, 1998). Second, heating rates due to stratospheric aerosol layers are calculated by a multiple scattering model in the visible wavelengths. Our model used the methane k-distribution parameters from Karkoschka and Tomasko (Icarus, 205, 674, 2010) and H2-H2 continuum absorption coefficients from Borysow et al. (A&A, 390, 779, 2002). Two types of aerosol are distinguished. Haze at low and middle latitude is optically thin and can be treated as Mie particles. And the high latitude aerosols with large optical depth are modeled as aggregated particles using the multi-sphere method (Mackowski and Mishchenko, J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A., 13, 2266, 1996). The effect of the aerosol heating rates on the radiative balance of stratosphere of Jupiter is studied.

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