Comparison of a sectional and a modal cloud microphysics representations for Venus: VenLA vs. MAD-VenLA

Sabrina Guilbon (1) , Anni Määttänen (1) , Franck Montmessin (1) , Jeremie Burgalat (2) , Slimane Bekki (3)

1 PLANETO - LATMOS
2 GSMA - Groupe de spectrométrie moléculaire et atmosphérique
3 STRATO - LATMOS

Here, we present a status report of MAD-VenLA. The results of the thermodynamical equilibrium and the homogeneous nucleation are similar between VenLA and MAD-VenLA. For the condensational process, with the same initial state and particle distribution, we can see a difference between MAD-VenLA and VenLA. In fact, the sectional model condense more than the modal representation. The validation of MAD-VenLA will be done with all processes and a comparison with baseline high-resolution models in literature

Domains: Astrophysics [astro-ph]

Sabrina Guilbon, Anni Määttänen, Franck Montmessin, Jeremie Burgalat, Slimane Bekki. Comparison of a sectional and a modal cloud microphysics representations for Venus: VenLA vs. MAD-VenLA. International Venus Conference 2016, Apr 2016, Oxford, United Kingdom. . ⟨insu-01373846⟩