Modeling the Venus atmospheric circulation and climate

该项目将扩展现有的金星大气环流和气候数值模型，纳入更准确的辐射转移、云和表面特性，以获得金星大气环流的一系列模型模拟。这些模拟将与欧空局金星快车和日本宇宙航空研究开发机构Akatsuki飞行任务的现有观测结果进行详细比较，以研究云层和深层大气环流中的现象。这些结果也可以与使用简化的大气环流模型的模拟进行比较，以调查可能的动力学机制，可能是所观察到的。该项目提议使用一套新的基于ISCA系统的模型代码，该系统正在与埃克塞特大学合作开发。

This project will extend an existing atmospheric circulation and climate numerical model of the Venus atmosphere to incorporate more accurate radiative transfer, clouds and surface properties to obtain a range of model simulations of the Venus atmospheric circulation. These simulations will be compared in detail with available observations from the ESA Venus Express and JAXA Akatsuki missions to investigate phenomena in both the cloud level and deep atmospheric circulation. These results may also be compared with simulations using simplified models of atmospheric circulation to investigate possible dynamical mechanisms that may underly what is observed. The project proposes to use a new suite of model codes based on the ISCA system being developed in collaboration with the University of Exeter.