Direct wind measurements from November 2007 in Venus' upper atmosphere using ground-based heterodyne spectroscopy of CO2 at 10 μm wavelength

Details Direct wind measurements from November 2007 in Venus' upper atmosphere using ground-based heterodyne spectroscopy of CO2 at 10 μm wavelength Direct wind measurements from November 2007 in Venus' upper atmosphere using ground-based heterodyne spectroscopy of CO2 at 10 μm wavelength

Feb 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012icar..217..863s&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 217, Issue 2, p. 863-874.

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Between November 23 and 28, 2007, the Cologne Tuneable Heterodyne Infrared Spectrometer THIS was installed at the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope (Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA) to determine zonal wind velocities and to estimate the subsolar-to-antisolar flow. We investigate dynamics in the upper atmosphere of Venus by measuring the Doppler shift of fully-resolved non-LTE CO2 emission lines at 959.3917 cm-1 (10.423 μm), which probe a narrow altitude region in Venus' atmosphere around 110 ± 10 km (˜1 μbar). The results show no significant zonal wind velocity at the equator. An increase with latitude up to 43 ± 13 m/s at a latitude of 33°N was observed. This confirms the deduction of a minor influence of Venus superrotation at an altitude of 110 km from previous measurements in May 2007 (Sornig et al., 2008). The specific observing geometry enables estimating the maximum cross terminator velocity of the subsolar-to-antisolar flow at 72 ± 47 m/s.

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