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Models of Venus Atmosphere

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Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus

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In the context of an International Space Science Institute (ISSI) working group, we have conducted a project to compare the most recent General Circulation Models (GCMs) of the Venus atmospheric circulation. A common configuration has been decided, with simple physical parametrization for the solar forcing and the boundary layer scheme.

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Acknowledgements

SL would like to thank the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the project Exoclimats financed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), and the computation facilities of both the Institut du Dévelopement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique (IDRIS) and the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC). The LR10 simulations were performed on Caltech’s Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences Dell cluster, CITerra, funded by a grant from NASA under the Planetary Atmospheres program. MY conducted the numerical experiments at the Information Technology Center of the University of Tokyo and the Information Initiative Center of Hokkaido University, which were supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI No. 20740273 and 22244060). HFP and GS acknowledge support from NASA’s Planetary Atmospheres Program through Grant NASA NNX07AF27G.

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  1. Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, CNRS, Jussieu, 99, 75252, Paris, France

    Sebastien Lebonnois

  2. Ashima Research, 600 S. Lake Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106, USA

    Christopher Lee

  3. Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-kouen, 816-8580, Kasuga, Japan

    Masaru Yamamoto

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Jonathan Dawson

  5. Planetary and Space Science Institute, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Stephen R. Lewis

  6. Department of Physics, Oxford University, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK

    Joao Mendonca

  7. Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, 0X1 3PU, UK

    Peter Read

  8. Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, 595 Charles Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1567, USA

    Helen F. Parish & Gerald Schubert

  9. International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Hallerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Lennart Bengtsson

  10. Department of Space Science, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO, 80205, USA

    David Grinspoon

  11. Space Science Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, 1225 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Sanjay S. Limaye

  12. Atmosphaere im Erdsystem, Max-Planck-Institut fr Meteorologie, Bundestrasse 53, D-20146, Hamburg, Germany

    Hauke Schmidt

  13. ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 299, 2200 AG, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Håkan Svedhem

  14. ESTEC/ESA, 299, NL-2200, AG, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Dimitri V. Titov

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  1. International Space Science Institute, Hallerstrasse 6, Bern, 3012, Switzerland

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  2. International Space Science Institute, Hallerstrasse 6, Bern, 3012, Switzerland

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  3. , Department of Space Science, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Colorado Blvd 2001, Denver, 80205, USA

    David Grinspoon

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  5. Laboratoire de Meterologie Dynamique, place Jussieu 4, Paris, 75005, France

    Sebastien Lebonnois

  6. ESA-ESTEC, Postbus 299, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands

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Lebonnois, S. et al. (2013). Models of Venus Atmosphere. In: Bengtsson, L., Bonnet, RM., Grinspoon, D., Koumoutsaris, S., Lebonnois, S., Titov, D. (eds) Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus. ISSI Scientific Report Series, vol 11. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5064-1_8

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