Mathematics
Scientific paper
Aug 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007epsc.conf..586s&link_type=abstract
European Planetary Science Congress 2007, Proceedings of a conference held 20-24 August, 2007 in Potsdam, Germany. Online at ht
Mathematics
Scientific paper
We present wind measurements in the Venusian upper mesosphere / lower thermosphere by means of infrared heterodyne spectroscopy of CO2 features at 959.3917 cm-1. Observations are carried out using the Cologne Tuneable Heterodyne Infrared Spectrometer (THIS) from May 25th to June 6th 2007 shortly before Venus superior conjunction at the McMath-Pierce solar telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona. Providing high spectral resolution winds can be retrieved from Doppler-shifts of CO2 non-thermal emission from the upper mesosphere. The sub-solar to anti-solar flow (SS-AS flow) and the retrograde superrotating zonal circulation (RSZ) are targeted and observations are carried out systematically on the day-side of the planet which is illuminated appr. 50%. The mesospheric region is of special interest because it is the not very well understood transitions zone form the RSZ dominated troposphere and the SS-AS flow dominated thermosphere. Measurements are part of the coordinated ground-based observing campaign to support VenusExpress from May 25th to June 9th. Complementary ground based observing methods probing wind velocities at different altitudes in the atmosphere of Venus provide the possibility to get a vertical wind profile. E.g. Doppler shifts of CO2 lines at visible wavelength together with reflected solar Frauenhofer lines probe dynamics at the cloud tops and a few kilometer above while interferometric CO millimeter observations provide information about the lower mesosphere and sub-millimeter spectral line observations are pointing to a region between 95 and 105km. The presented mid- IR measurements probe an altitude of 100-120km.
Kostiuk Theodor,
Krötz Peter
Livengood Tim
Schieder Rudolf
Sonnabend Guido
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