Characterising Atmospheric Gravity Waves on Venus's lower and upper cloud banks using Venus Express VIRTIS and VMC data.

On this talk, we will report on the detection and characterisation of atmospheric gravity waves on the lower and upper cloud deck of Venus using images from the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) and the Visible Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS). Images were navigated and processed for optimal detection of wave features and accurate characterisation of wave properties such as horizontal wavelength, packet length and width, orientation and where possible phase velocity of the wave packet.