Validation of the IPSL Venus GCM thermal structure with VIRTIS data

Pietro Scarica (1) , Itziar Garate-Lopez (2) , Sébastien Lebonnois (3) , Giuseppe Piccioni (1) , Davide Grassi (1) , Alessandra Migliorini (1)

1 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
2 EHU - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Guipúzcoa]
3 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)

The understanding of the mechanisms behind the planetary atmospheres along with their dynamics and structure, relies on General Circulation Models (GCMs). Here we compare the thermal structure from the latest version of the LMDZ Venus GCM developed at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique of Paris, against the one retrieved by VIRTIS, the Imaging Spectrometer flown on board the ESA Venus Express mission.

Domaines: Planétologie

Pietro Scarica, Itziar Garate-Lopez, Sébastien Lebonnois, Giuseppe Piccioni, Davide Grassi, et al.. Validation of the IPSL Venus GCM thermal structure with VIRTIS data. EPSC-DPS joint meeting, Sep 2019, Genève, Switzerland. pp.EPSC-DPS2019-1576. ⟨hal-02323500⟩