The distribution of ammonia on Jupiter from a preliminary inversion of Juno microwave radiometer data
Geophysical Research Letters, 2017•Wiley Online Library
The Juno microwave radiometer measured the thermal emission from Jupiter's atmosphere
from the cloud tops at about 1 bar to as deep as a hundred bars of pressure during its first
flyby over Jupiter (PJ1). The nadir brightness temperatures show that the Equatorial Zone is
likely to be an ideal adiabat, which allows a determination of the deep ammonia abundance
in the range ppm. The combination of Markov chain Monte Carlo method and Tikhonov
regularization is studied to invert Jupiter's global ammonia distribution assuming a …
from the cloud tops at about 1 bar to as deep as a hundred bars of pressure during its first
flyby over Jupiter (PJ1). The nadir brightness temperatures show that the Equatorial Zone is
likely to be an ideal adiabat, which allows a determination of the deep ammonia abundance
in the range ppm. The combination of Markov chain Monte Carlo method and Tikhonov
regularization is studied to invert Jupiter's global ammonia distribution assuming a …
Abstract
The Juno microwave radiometer measured the thermal emission from Jupiter's atmosphere from the cloud tops at about 1 bar to as deep as a hundred bars of pressure during its first flyby over Jupiter (PJ1). The nadir brightness temperatures show that the Equatorial Zone is likely to be an ideal adiabat, which allows a determination of the deep ammonia abundance in the range ppm. The combination of Markov chain Monte Carlo method and Tikhonov regularization is studied to invert Jupiter's global ammonia distribution assuming a prescribed temperature profile. The result shows (1) that ammonia is depleted globally down to 50–60 bars except within a few degrees of the equator, (2) the North Equatorial Belt is more depleted in ammonia than elsewhere, and (3) the ammonia concentration shows a slight inversion starting from about 7 bars to 2 bars. These results are robust regardless of the choice of water abundance.
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