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20192026
most citedSix years of Venus winds at the upper cloud level from UV, visible and near infrared observations from VIRTIS on Venus Express

88 citations · 310 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Information content on Venusian aerosols in VIRTIS-M infrared data

Jaime Reyes-Guerrero, Santiago Pérez-Hoyos, Itziar Garate-Lopez

Venus presents a complex cloud structure with aerosol particles of different sizes located mainly between 48 km and 70 km in altitude. However, the number of free parameters that c…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

Evaluation of new radio occultation observations among small satellites at Venus by data assimilation

Yukiko Fujisawa, Norihiko Sugimoto, Chi Ao +5

We conducted observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) for radio occultation measurements (RO) among small satellites, which are expected to be useful for future Venus missio…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 62 cited

Latitudinal Variation of Clouds' Structure Responsible for Venus' Cold Collar

I. Garate-Lopez, Sébastien Lebonnois

Global Climate Models (GCM) are very useful tools to study theoretically the general dynamics and specific phenomena in planetary atmospheres. In the case of Venus, several GCMs su…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

A model of scattered thermal radiation for Venus from 3 to 5 m

A. García Muñoz, P. Wolkenberg, A. Sánchez-Lavega +2

Thermal radiation becomes a prominent feature in the continuum spectrum of Venus longwards of 3 m. The emission is traceable to the upper cloud and haze layers in the plan…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 12 cited

Potential Vorticity of the South Polar Vortex of Venus

I. Garate-Lopez, R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega +1

Venus' atmosphere shows highly variable warm vortices over both of the planet's poles. The nature of the mechanism behind their formation and properties is still unknown. Potential…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

Validation of the IPSL Venus GCM Thermal Structure with Venus Express Data

Pietro Scarica, Itziar Garate-Lopez, Sebastien Lebonnois +4

General circulation models (GCMs) are valuable instruments to understand the most peculiar features in the atmospheres of planets and the mechanisms behind their dynamics. Venus ma…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 21 cited

Instantaneous Three-dimensional Thermal Structure of the South Polar Vortex of Venus

I. Garate-Lopez, A. García Muñoz, R. Hueso +1

The Venus thermal radiation spectrum exhibits the signature of absorption bands. By means of inversion techniques, those bands enable the retrieval of atmospheric temperatur…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 27 cited

An Enduring Rapidly Moving Storm as a Guide to Saturn's Equatorial Jet's Complex Structure

A. Sánchez-Lavega, E. García-Melendo, S. Perez-Hoyos +14

Saturn has an intense and broad eastward equatorial jet with a complex three-dimensional structure mixed with time variability. The equatorial region experiences strong seasonal in…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 88 cited

Six years of Venus winds at the upper cloud level from UV, visible and near infrared observations from VIRTIS on Venus Express

Ricardo Hueso, Javier Peralta, Itziar Garate-Lopez +2

Venus Express provided a long-term monitoring of Venus atmosphere. Several works focused on the dynamics of the upper cloud visible on the day-side in ultraviolet images sensitive…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 40 cited

A chaotic long-lived vortex at Venus southern pole

I. Garate-Lopez, R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega +3

Polar vortices are common in the atmospheres of rapidly rotating planets [1-4]. On Earth and Mars they are tied to the surface and their existence follows the seasonal insolation c…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 3 cited

The Venus' Cloud Discontinuity in 2022

J. Peralta, A. Cidadão, L. Morrone +10

First identified in 2016 by JAXA's Akatsuki mission, the discontinuity/disruption is a recurrent wave observed to propagate during decades at the deeper clouds of Venus (47--56 km…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 26 cited

New cloud morphologies discovered on the Venus's night during Akatsuki

J. Peralta, A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. Horinouchi +8

During the years 2016 to 2018, the instruments Akatsuki/IR2 (JAXA) and IRTF/SpeX (NASA) acquired a large set of images at 1.74, 2.26 and 2.32 μm to study the nightside mid-to-lower…