Clouds and hazes of Venus

DV Titov, NI Ignatiev, K McGouldrick, V Wilquet… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
More than three decades have passed since the publication of the last review of the Venus
clouds and hazes. The paper published in 1983 in the Venus book summarized the …

Initial performance of the radio occultation experiment in the Venus orbiter mission Akatsuki

T Imamura, H Ando, S Tellmann, M Pätzold… - Earth, Planets and …, 2017 - Springer
After the arrival of Akatsuki spacecraft of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency at Venus in
December 2015, the radio occultation experiment, termed RS (Radio Science), obtained 19 …

Models of the global cloud structure on Venus derived from Venus Express observations

JK Barstow, CCC Tsang, CF Wilson, PGJ Irwin… - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
Spatially-resolved near-infrared spectra from the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging
Spectrometer (VIRTIS) on Venus Express have been used to derive improved models of the …

Three‐dimensional turbulence‐resolving modeling of the Venusian cloud layer and induced gravity waves: Inclusion of complete radiative transfer and wind shear

M Lefèvre, S Lebonnois, A Spiga - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Venus' convective cloud layers and associated gravity waves strongly impact the local and
global budget of heat, momentum, and chemical species. Here we use for the first time three …

Characterization of mesoscale gravity waves in the upper and lower clouds of Venus from VEX‐VIRTIS images

J Peralta, R Hueso, A Sánchez‐Lavega… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Images obtained from the Visible and InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS)‐M
instrument onboard Venus Express present visible trains of alternating bands of cloud …

Small-scale temperature fluctuations seen by the VeRa Radio Science Experiment on Venus Express

S Tellmann, B Häusler, DP Hinson, GL Tyler, TP Andert… - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
The Venus Express Radio Science Experiment VeRa retrieves atmospheric profiles in the
mesosphere and troposphere of Venus in the approximate altitude range of 40–90km. A …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of turbulent vertical mixing in the Venus clouds on chemical tracers

M Lefèvre, E Marcq, F Lefèvre - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
Venus' clouds host a convective layer between roughly 50 and 60 km that mixes heat,
momentum, and chemical species. Observations and numerical modelling have helped to …

The climate system and the second law of thermodynamics

MS Singh, ME O'Neill - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
The second law of thermodynamics implies a relationship between the net entropy export by
Earth and its internal irreversible entropy production. The application of this constraint for the …

High latitude gravity waves at the Venus cloud tops as observed by the Venus Monitoring Camera on board Venus Express

A Piccialli, DV Titov, A Sanchez-Lavega, J Peralta… - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
High resolution images of Venus Northern hemisphere obtained with the Venus Monitoring
Camera (VMC/VEx) allow studying small-scale dynamical phenomena at the cloud tops (∼ …

Venusian cloud distribution simulated by a general circulation model

H Ando, M Takagi, N Sugimoto… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a simple cloud model for a Venus general circulation model (GCM), which
includes condensable gases of H2O and H2SO4 vapors, and condensation, evaporation …