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Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus

Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet

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Editors:
  1. Lennart Bengtsson

    1. International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

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  2. Roger-Maurice Bonnet

    1. International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

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  3. David Grinspoon

    1. , Department of Space Science, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, USA

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  4. Symeon Koumoutsaris

    1. Peninsular House, Risk Management Solutions Ltd, London, United Kingdom

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  5. Sebastien Lebonnois

    1. Laboratoire de Meterologie Dynamique, Paris, France

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  6. Dmitri Titov

    1. ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands

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  • Provides a historical account of the exploration of Venus by American, Russian and European space missions
  • Gives an up-to-date overview of recent observational results from the ESA Venus Express Mission
  • Presents a comprehensive summary of numerical modeling of the Venus atmosphere, including its super-rotation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: ISSI Scientific Report Series (ISSI, volume 11)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lennart Bengtsson
    Pages 1-4

  3. What Do We Know About Venus?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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  4. What do we know about Venus?

    1. History of Venus Observations

      • Roger-Maurice Bonnet, David Grinspoon, Angelo Pio Rossi
      Pages 7-16

    2. The Surface and Atmosphere of Venus: Evolution and Present State

      • David Grinspoon
      Pages 17-22

    3. Radiative Energy Balance in the Venus Atmosphere

      • Dmitrij V. Titov, Giuseppe Piccioni, Pierre Drossart, Wojciech J. Markiewicz
      Pages 23-53

    4. Atmospheric Circulation and Dynamics

      • Sanjay S. Limaye, Miriam Rengel
      Pages 55-70

  5. Modeling the Atmospheric Circulation of Venus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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  6. Modeling the atmospheric circulation of Venus

    1. The Dynamics and Circulation of Venus Atmosphere

      • Peter L. Read
      Pages 73-110

    2. Modeling Efforts

      • Stephen R. Lewis, Jonathan Dawson, Sebastien Lebonnois, Masaru Yamamoto
      Pages 111-127

    3. Models of Venus Atmosphere

      • Sebastien Lebonnois, Christopher Lee, Masaru Yamamoto, Jonathan Dawson, Stephen R. Lewis, Joao Mendonca et al.
      Pages 129-156

    4. Comparing Earth and Venus

      • Hauke Schmidt
      Pages 157-167

  7. Outlook

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Future Prospects

      • Håkan Svedhem, David Grinspoon
      Pages 171-185
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About this book

ESA’s Venus Express Mission has monitored Venus since April 2006, and scientists worldwide have used mathematical models to investigate its atmosphere and model its circulation. This book summarizes recent work to explore and understand the climate of the planet through a research program under the auspices of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. Some of the unique elements that are discussed are the anomalies with Venus’ surface temperature (the huge greenhouse effect causes the surface to rise to 460°C, without which would plummet as low as -40°C), its unusual lack of solar radiation (despite being closer to the Sun, Venus receives less solar radiation than Earth due to its dense cloud cover reflecting 76% back) and the juxtaposition of its atmosphere and planetary rotation (wind speeds can climb up to 200 m/s, much faster than Venus’ sidereal day of 243 Earth-days).

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

    Lennart Bengtsson, Roger-Maurice Bonnet

  • , Department of Space Science, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, USA

    David Grinspoon

  • Peninsular House, Risk Management Solutions Ltd, London, United Kingdom

    Symeon Koumoutsaris

  • Laboratoire de Meterologie Dynamique, Paris, France

    Sebastien Lebonnois

  • ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands

    Dmitri Titov

About the editors

Prof. Bengtsson got his Fil.lic. at the Meteorology Department at the University of Stockholm, Sweden in 1964. He has been a Docent at the Stockholm University in Sweden since 1978. In 2001, he became a Professor/Senior Scientist at the Environmental Systems Science Centre at the University of Reading, UK. In 2008, Prof. Bengtsson was named Director of Earth Science at ISSI in Bern, Switzerland. He has been awarded several times, most recently in 2009 when he received the Silver Medal of the European Meteorological Society. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Meteorological Society in the UK, and an Alfred Wegener Medal recipient and Honorary member of the EGU.

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