THE UPPER CLOUDS OF VENUS - DETERMINATION OF THE SCALE HEIGHT FROM NIMS-GALILEO INFRARED DATA

PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE 41:7 (1993) 505-&

Authors:

M ROOS, P DROSSART, T ENCRENAZ, E LELLOUCH, B BEZARD, RW CARLSON, KH BAINES, LW KAMP, FW TAYLOR, AD COLLARD, SB CALCUTT, JB POLLACK, DH GRINSPOON

Galileo infrared imaging spectroscopy measurements at venus.

Science 253:5027 (1991) 1541-1548

Authors:

RW Carlson, KH Baines, T Encrenaz, FW Taylor, P Drossart, LW Kamp, JB Pollack, E Lellouch, AD Collard, SB Calcutt, D Grinspoon, PR Weissman, WD Smythe, AC Ocampo, GE Danielson, FP Fanale, TV Johnson, HH Kieffer, DL Matson, TB McCord, LA Soderblom

Abstract:

During the 1990 Galileo Venus flyby, the Near Infaied Mapping Spectrometer investigated the night-side atmosphere of Venus in the spectral range 0.7 to 5.2 micrometers. Multispectral images at high spatial resolution indicate substanmial cloud opacity variations in the lower cloud levels, centered at 50 kilometers altitude. Zonal and meridional winds were derived for this level and are consistent with motion of the upper branch of a Hadley cell. Northern and southern hemisphere clouds appear to be markedly different. Spectral profiles were used to derive lower atmosphere abundances of water vapor and other species.

HIGH-LATITUDE PHENOMENA, DEEP CLOUD STRUCTURE, AND WATER-VAPOR ON VENUS

10 (1990) 47-56

Authors:

FW TAYLOR, LW KAMP, SB CALCUTT

STRUCTURE OF VENUS ATMOSPHERE FROM MODELING OF NIGHT-SIDE INFRARED-SPECTRA

NATURE 336:6197 (1988) 360-362

Authors:

LW KAMP, FW TAYLOR, SB CALCUTT

NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF THE ATMOSPHERE OF JUPITER

JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER 32:5-6 (1984) 463-477

Authors:

FW TAYLOR, SB CALCUTT