Thermal periodicities in the Venus atmosphere

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982icar...49..427a&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 49, Mar. 1982, p. 427-437.

Physics

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Atmospheric Radiation, Brightness Temperature, Thermal Emission, Venus Atmosphere, Infrared Radiometers, Periodic Variations, Pioneer Venus 1 Spacecraft

Scientific paper

Evidence of periodic fluctuations was sought in the Pioneer Venus orbiter's IR radiometer data by averaging it in 10 X 10 deg latitude-longitude bins for each of the 72 days during which the instrument was in operation. The thermal brightness temperature time series obtained was then analyzed to determine the amplitude of fluctuations at periods ranging from two to 64 days, for cloud-top, 70, 80 and 90 km levels in the atmosphere. It is found that fluctuation amplitudes, which are small at equatorial latitudes, increase to a maximum at 60-70 deg latitude and reach a maximum at the cloud-top level, decreasing to a minimum at the 80 km channel before increasing again toward the 90 km channel. The period of the highest amplitude fluctuation is found to be 5.3 + or - 0.4 days, at all altitudes except at 70-80 deg latitude, where a 2.9-day period which may correspond to the polar dipole dominates the cloud-top channel.

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