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First global extraction of mesospheric Venusian O 3 and SO 2 concentrations from the entire SPICAV-UV/VEX stellar occultations dataset

Authors :
Evdokimova, Daria
Montmessin, Franck
Belyaev, Denis
Bertaux, Jean-Loup
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI)
Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS)
PLANETO - LATMOS
Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)
Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)
Cardon, Catherine
Source :
EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019, Sep 2019, Geneva, Switzerland. pp.EPSC-DPS2019-1469-2
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2019.

Abstract

International audience; The SPICAV spectrometer was a part of the ESA's Venus Express spacecraft functioning on the Venus orbit in 2006-2014 [1]. Its UV channel worked in a spectral range of 118-320 nm that covered gaseous absorption bands of SO2, O3 and CO2. Observations of stellar occultations in the UV allowed to study nighttime vertical distributions of these gases within altitude range of 80-110 km corresponding to Venus upper mesosphere. Temporal and spatial variations of the gaseous content are able to be analyzed considering the SPICAV dataset accumulated for the entire mission period. In our work we present results of O3 and reprocessed SO2 retrievals based on the whole SPICAV UV dataset. The data processing pipeline was improved since the recent studies [2] that allowed to extend the number of considering observations.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019, Sep 2019, Geneva, Switzerland. pp.EPSC-DPS2019-1469-2
Accession number :
edsair.dedup.wf.001..d732fe4470494a24b0199ba6c31556ad