Cloud structure and heating rates in the atmosphere of Venus

Details Cloud structure and heating rates in the atmosphere of Venus Cloud structure and heating rates in the atmosphere of Venus

Jun 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975jats...32.1107l&link_type=abstract

(NASA, State University of New York, AAS, and AGU, Conference on the Atmosphere of Venus, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studi

Physics

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Atmospheric Heating, Cloud Physics, Solar Heating, Venus Atmosphere, Venus Clouds, Heat Flux, Light Scattering, Thermal Absorption, Venera Satellites

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Ground-based observations and Venera 8 entry-probe measurements are used to infer the vertical distribution of cloud particles in the atmosphere of Venus. In the cloud-top region, from a few millibars to a few hundred millibars pressure, the mixing ratio of cloud particles to gas increases with depth. The visible clouds are diffuse with a scale height about one-half of the gaseous atmosphere. Although the presence of significant vertical structure could escape detection by available observations, the diffuse haze appears to extend over at least 20 km in altitude. The Venera 8 measurements suggest considerable vertical structure in the deep atmosphere. A unique solution for the cloud structure is not possible, but if it is assumed that the cloud optical properties are independent of height, then some characteristics of the relative cloud structure can be deduced. Under this assumption, the results show a maximum cloud density near 40 km, a nearly homogeneous particle mixing in the region from about 40 to 50 km, and a fairly sharp cloud bottom near 30 km. Relative maxima in the cloud density are also implied near 55 and 10 km, but with much greater uncertainty.

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