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The Inhomogeneity Effect III: Weather Impacts on the Heat Flow of Hot Jupiters
Xi Zhang, Cheng Li, Huazhi Ge +1
The interior flux of a giant planet impacts atmospheric motion, and the atmosphere dictates the interior's cooling. Here we use a non-hydrostatic general circulation model (Simulat…
Seasonal variations of chemical species and haze in Titan's upper atmosphere
Siteng Fan, Daniel Zhao, Cheng Li +3
Seasonal variation is significant in Titan's atmosphere due to the large change of solar insolation resulting from Titan's 26.7° axial tilt relative to the plane of Saturn's orbit.…
A Global Non-Hydrostatic Atmospheric Model with a Mass and Energy Conserving Vertically-Implicit-Correction (VIC) Scheme
Huazhi Ge, Cheng Li, Xi Zhang +1
Global non-hydrostatic atmospheric models are becoming increasingly important for studying the climates of planets and exoplanets. However, such models suffer from computational di…
Earth as an Exoplanet: A Two-dimensional Alien Map
Siteng Fan, Cheng Li, Jia-Zheng Li +5
Resolving spatially-varying exoplanet features from single-point light curves is essential for determining whether Earth-like worlds harbor geological features and/or climate syste…
Retrieval of Chemical Abundances in Titan's Upper Atmosphere from Cassini UVIS Observations with Pointing Motion
Siteng Fan, Donald E. Shemansky, Cheng Li +3
Cassini/UVIS FUV observations of stellar occultations at Titan are well suited for probing its atmospheric composition and structure. However, due to instrument pointing motion, on…
A High-performance Atmospheric Radiation Package: with applications to the radiative energy budgets of giant planets
Cheng Li, Tianhao Le, Xi Zhang +1
A High-performance Atmospheric Radiation Package (HARP) is developed for studying multiple-scattering planetary atmospheres. HARP is an open-source program written in C++ that util…
Mapping of Jupiter's tropospheric NH abundance using ground-based IRTF/TEXES observations at 5 m
Doriann Blain, Thierry Fouchet, Thomas Greathouse +8
We report on results of an observing campaign to support the Juno mission. At the beginning of 2016, using TEXES (Texas Echelon cross-dispersed Echelle Spectrograph), mounted on th…
Stability of CO2 Atmospheres on Desiccated M Dwarf Exoplanets
Peter Gao, Renyu Hu, Tyler D. Robinson +2
We investigate the chemical stability of CO2-dominated atmospheres of desiccated M dwarf terrestrial exoplanets using a 1-dimensional photochemical model. Around Sun-like stars, CO…