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Water vapour abundance in Venus' middle atmosphere from Pioneer Venus OIR and Venera 15 FTS measurements.

Icarus 173 (2005) 84-99

Authors:

FW Taylor, Koukouli, M., P.G.J. Irwin
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Warming the world

Nature Springer Nature 432:7018 (2004) 677-677
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Retrievals of Jovian tropospheric phosphine from Cassini/CIRS

Icarus 172 (2004) 37-49

Authors:

PG Irwin, P. Parrish, T. Fouchet, S. B. Calcutt
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Search for spatial variation in the jovian 15N/14N ratio from Cassini/CIRS observations

Icarus 172 (2004) 50-58

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SB Calcutt, Fouchet, Irwin, Parrish
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Jupiter's atmospheric composition from the Cassini thermal infrared spectroscopy experiment.

Science 305:5690 (2004) 1582-1586

Authors:

VG Kunde, FM Flasar, DE Jennings, B Bézard, DF Strobel, BJ Conrath, CA Nixon, GL Bjoraker, PN Romani, RK Achterberg, AA Simon-Miller, P Irwin, JC Brasunas, JC Pearl, MD Smith, GS Orton, PJ Gierasch, LJ Spilker, RC Carlson, AA Mamoutkine, SB Calcutt, PL Read, FW Taylor, T Fouchet, P Parrish, A Barucci, R Courtin, A Coustenis, D Gautier, E Lellouch, A Marten, R Prangé, Y Biraud, C Ferrari, TC Owen, MM Abbas, RE Samuelson, F Raulin, P Ade, CJ Césarsky, KU Grossman, A Coradini

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The Composite Infrared Spectrometer observed Jupiter in the thermal infrared during the swing-by of the Cassini spacecraft. Results include the detection of two new stratospheric species, the methyl radical and diacetylene, gaseous species present in the north and south auroral infrared hot spots; determination of the variations with latitude of acetylene and ethane, the latter a tracer of atmospheric motion; observations of unexpected spatial distributions of carbon dioxide and hydrogen cyanide, both considered to be products of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts; characterization of the morphology of the auroral infrared hot spot acetylene emission; and a new evaluation of the energetics of the northern auroral infrared hot spot.
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