VenLA: The LATMOS Venus cloud model

Anni Määttänen (1) , Sabrina Guilbon (1) , Aurélien Stolzenbach (1) , Slimane Bekki (2) , Franck Montmessin (1)

1 PLANETO - LATMOS
2 STRATO - LATMOS

The LATMOS Venus cloud model VenLA (Venus Liquid Aerosols) is based on a terrestrial Polar Strato-spheric Cloud (PSC) model [7]. VenLA models the formation, growth and decay of sulfuric acid-water droplets. The model has undergone several updates. We will present results of reference runs and sensitivity tests based on input profiles from VIRA [5] for temperature and pressure and from occultation data concerning the vapors, as in [8]. We compare the results to the available observations on cloud particle number densities and sizes, and to other modeling studies. The VenLA model will define the baseline for a parallel project on development of a moment method scheme to be used in a global climate model (see abstract Guil-bon et al., this conference [2]).

Domains: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]

Anni Määttänen, Sabrina Guilbon, Aurélien Stolzenbach, Slimane Bekki, Franck Montmessin. VenLA: The LATMOS Venus cloud model. European Planetary Science Congress 2015, Sep 2015, Nantes, France. pp.EPSC2015-634. ⟨insu-01211232⟩