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Venus Topography and Boundary Conditions in 3D General Circulation Modeling

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We describe how one ingests 3D topographic data from NASA’s Venus Magellan Spacecraft radar observations into the ROCKE-3D Planetary General Circulation Model. We also explain how boundary condition choices such as ocean/lake coverage/depth, rotation rate, atmospheric constituents, and other factors influence surface conditions in ROCKE-3D paleo-Venus simulations. Studies such as these should also be considered when examining liquid water habitability in similar exoplanet experiments.

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Notes

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    http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/mgn/mgn-v-rss-5-gravity-l2-v1/mg_5201/.

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    http://www.ipcc.ch/.

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    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf.

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    A known issue with ROCKE-3D for shallow ocean grid cells is that if they freeze to the bottom the GCM will crash as it is incapable of changing topographically defined surface types (e.g. ocean → land or vice versa).

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    A surface covered in 100% water.

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    http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply.

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    http://ngwww.ucar.edu/.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the NASA Astrobiology Program through our participation in the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, and by the NASA Planetary Atmospheres Program, Exobiology Program, and Habitable Worlds Program. M.J.W. acknowledges support from GSFC Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC), which is funded by the NASA Planetary Science Divisionʼs Internal Scientist Funding Model. Special thanks to Jeff Jonas, Robert Schmunk, and Linda Sohl for advice related to the creation of the topographic overlay file.

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    Michael J. Way

  2. Theoretical Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75120, Sweden

    Michael J. Way

  3. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA

    June Wang

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Way, M.J., Wang, J. (2019). Venus Topography and Boundary Conditions in 3D General Circulation Modeling. In: Hargitai, H. (eds) Planetary Cartography and GIS. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62849-3_19

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