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Lower atmospheric composition of Jupiter from Voyager infrared measurements [Final Technical Report]
Lower atmospheric composition of Jupiter from Voyager infrared measurements [Final Technical Report]
01 Jan 1984
Abstract
The observed spectrum of Jovian atmosphere exhibits spectral features of H2, CH4, C2H6, NH3, H2O, GeH4 and CH3D. Analytical programs were developed for radiative transfer calculations and for retrieval of lower atmospheric composition of Jupiter from the observed infrared spectrum. The program models developed are based line by line transmittance calculations with appropriate convolution of the instrument function. The constituent inversion programs were evaluated for accuracy by analyzing synthetic data for retrievals of NH3 profiles. The inversion programs were employed for retrieval of NH3 profiles from the Voyager infared data with results generally in agreement with the accepted values.
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- Title
- Lower atmospheric composition of Jupiter from Voyager infrared measurements [Final Technical Report]
- Creators
- M Abbas
- Publication Details
- Lower atmospheric composition of Jupiter from Voyager infrared measurements [Final Technical Report]
- Publisher
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Report
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Identifiers
- 991022043491604721