Elementary examination of the vertical structure of atmospheres with application to the atmosphere of planets and their satellites
Abstract
In the present paper, the turbopause levels, isothermal regions, and other structural characteristics of planetary and satellite atmospheres are analyzed, and the lower bounds of exospheres are evaluated. The estimates are obtained under the assumption that satellite atmospheres are exothermal, and that the scale height is influenced only by the decrease in gravity force. Example calculations are presented.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk SSSR Doklady
- Pub Date:
- February 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977DoSSR.232Q.786G
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Stratification;
- Natural Satellites;
- Planetary Atmospheres;
- Exosphere;
- Ganymede;
- Io;
- Jupiter Atmosphere;
- Mars Atmosphere;
- Scale Height;
- Titan;
- Vertical Distribution;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration