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Apr 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994muaa.repts....c&link_type=abstract
Annual Report, 1 May 1993 - 30 Apr. 1994 Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor. Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science.
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Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds (Meteorology), Io, Satellite Atmospheres, Sodium Vapor, Atmospheric Models, Jupiter Atmosphere, Molecular Gases, Molecular Ions
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The general objective of this project is to advance theoretical understanding of Io's atmosphere and how various atomic and molecular species are lost from this atmosphere and are distributed in the circumplanetary environment of Jupiter. The major task for the University of Michigan portion of this work is the generalization of the Io sodium cloud model to simulate the ion-precursor of sodium that is the apparent source of the fast sodium jet observed by Schneider et al. (1991). The goal is a quantitative test of the molecular ion hypothesis with a model that is comparable to a general sodium cloud model published previously. A detailed comparison of observations with such a model will help to probe the feasibility of such a source and to examine the rates and scale lengths associated with the decay of the ion precursor so as to possibly uncover the identity of the parent ion. Another important task to be performed at Michigan is more support of AER in the general area of modeling the Na and SO2-family clouds.
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