Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008dps....40.3102w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #40, #31.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.446
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present results from a 3-dimesional global climate model of Titan's atmosphere and surface. This model, a modified version of NCAR's CAM-3 (Community Atmosphere Model), has been optimized for analysis of Titan's lower atmosphere and surface. With the inclusion of forcing from Saturn's gravitational tides, interaction from the surface, transfer of longwave and shortwave radiation, and parameterization of haze properties, constrained by Cassini observations, a dynamical field is generated, which serves to advect 14 long-lived species. The concentrations of these chemical tracers are also affected by 82 chemical reactions and the photolysis of 21 species, based on the Wilson and Atreya (2004) model, that provide sources and sinks for the advected species along with 23 additional non-advected radicals. In addition, the chemical contribution to haze conversion is parameterized along with the microphysical processes that serve to distribute haze opacity throughout the atmosphere.
References
Wilson, E.H. and S.K. Atreya, J. Geophys. Res., 109, E06002, 2004.
Friedson Andrew James
Oyafuso Fabiano
West Robert A.
Wilson Eric
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