Microphysical modeling of the Venusian clouds with the IPSL Venus GCM

Sabrina Guilbon (1) , Anni Määttänen (1) , Franck Montmessin (1) , Jérémie Burgalat (2) , Sébastien Lebonnois (3) , Kevin Mcgouldrick (4) , Aurélien Stolzenbach (1) , Franck Lefèvre (1)

1 PLANETO - LATMOS
2 GSMA - Groupe de spectrométrie moléculaire et atmosphérique
3 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
4 LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder]

To understand the Venus atmosphere, LMD and LATMOS laboratories have developed a 3D IPSL Venus Global Climate Model (Lebonnois et al. 2010). In this GCM, the cloud description is simplified. As clouds play a crucial role in radiative transfer, dynamics and generally the climate of Venus, it is necessary to improve the VGCM with a microphysical representation.

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Astrophysique stellaire et solaire [astro-ph.SR]

Sabrina Guilbon, Anni Määttänen, Franck Montmessin, Jérémie Burgalat, Sébastien Lebonnois, et al.. Microphysical modeling of the Venusian clouds with the IPSL Venus GCM. European Planetary Science Congress 2017, Sep 2017, Riga, Latvia. pp.EPSC2017-571. ⟨insu-01593730⟩