European Planetary Science Congress 2017
17–22 September 2017
Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija | Riga | Latvia

Oral programme TP8

TP8

Atmospheres and aeronomy of terrestrial planets
Convener: Dmitrij Titov  | Co-Conveners: Francisco González-Galindo , Olivier Witasse , Anni Määttänen 
Oral programme
 / Mon, 18 Sep, 11:00–12:30  / 14:00–19:15  / Room Jupiter
 / Tue, 19 Sep, 09:00–12:30  / 14:00–17:45  / Room Saturn
Poster programme
 / Attendance Tue, 19 Sep, 17:45–19:15  / Poster area

Monday, 18 September 2017
Room Jupiter
Atmospheric dynamics and electricity

11:00–11:15
EPSC2017-124
Atmospheric CO2 supersaturation in the Martian polar nights: Role of large-scale atmospheric waves
K. Noguchi, T. Kuroda, S. Tellmann, and M. Pätzold
11:15–11:30
EPSC2017-294
Meteorological properties of Martian Dust Devils as observed by MSL
H. Kahanpää, M. T. Lemmon, E. Mason, and M. Battalio
11:30–11:45
EPSC2017-376
SPICAM observations of thermospheric airglow during the 2007 dust storm
N.M. Schneider, M. Chaffin, D. Everding, F. Montmessin, J.L. Bertaux, F. Leblanc, and J.-Y. Chaufray
11:45–12:00
EPSC2017-347
Stochastic Models of Lightning and Lightning Observation on Venus
R. D. Lorenz
12:00–12:15
EPSC2017-476
Characteristics of the Venus Boundary Layer, as modeled by the IPSL Venus GCM
S. Lebonnois and G. Schubert
12:15–12:30
EPSC2017-257
Three-dimensional turbulence-resolving modeling of the Venusian cloud convective layer
M.L. Lefèvre, A.S. Spiga, and S.L. Lebonnois
Lunch break
14:00–14:15
EPSC2017-652
How does the latitudinal dependency of the cloud structure change Venus' atmosphere's general circulation?
I. Garate-Lopez and S. Lebonnois
14:15–14:30
EPSC2017-80
Stationary waves and slow cloud features challenge Venus's night side superrotation
J. Peralta, R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega, Y. J. Lee, A. García-Muñoz, T. Kouyama, H. Sagawa, T. M. Sato, G. Piccioni, S. Tellmann, and T. Satoh
14:30–14:45
EPSC2017-86
Generation mechanism of precessing circulation of the Venus polar vortex
H. Ando, N. Sugimoto, and M. Takagi
14:45–15:00
EPSC2017-229
A singular double baroclinic vortex on Mars
A. Sanchez-Lavega, A. Garro, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia, R. Hueso, I. Ordoñez-Etxeberria, H. Chen Chen, A. Cardesin-Moinelo, D. Titov, S. Wood, and M Dias Almeida
15:00–15:15
EPSC2017-788
Short-period planetary-scale waves found in a Venus GCM
M. Takagi, N. Sugimoto, H. Ando, and Y. Matsuda
15:15–15:30
EPSC2017-472
Meridional and Zonal winds at Venus’ atmosphere from Cloud-tracking, Doppler techniques and comparison with modelling
P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta, R. Gonçalves, G. Gilli, and M. Silva
Upper atmosphere and plasma environment

Coffee break
16:00–16:15
EPSC2017-740
How to interpret the temperature variability in Titan's upper atmosphere?
J. Cui
16:15–16:30
EPSC2017-111
Circulation of Venusian atmosphere at 95-100 km apparent motions of 1.27 μm nightglow of O2 observed by VIRTIS on board Venus Express
D. Gorinov, I. Khatuntsev, L. Zasova, and A. Tyurin
16:30–16:45
EPSC2017-217
Unveiling Mars nightside mesosphere dynamics by IUVS/MAVEN global images of NO nightglow
A. Stiepen, S.K. Jain, N.M. Schneider, Z. Milby, J.I. Deighan, F. Gonzàlez-Galindo, J.-C. Gérard, F. Forget, S. Bougher, A.I.F. Stewart, E. Royer, M.H. Stevens, J.S. Evans, M.S. Chaffin, M. Crismani, W.E. McClintock, J.T. Clarke, G.W. Holsclaw, F. Montmessin, and D.Y. Lo and the MAVEN/IUVS
16:45–17:00
EPSC2017-519 | presentation
Study of gravity waves propagation in the thermosphere of Mars based on MAVEN/NGIMS density measurements
M. Vals
17:00–17:15
EPSC2017-557
Characterising gravity waves in the Martian thermosphere using MAVEN accelerometer data
A. Siddle and I. C. F. Mueller-Wodarg
17:15–17:30
EPSC2017-855
Modelling the effects of gravity waves in the GEM-Mars GCM
L. Neary, F. Daerden, and S. Viscardy
Break
17:45–18:00
EPSC2017-163
Distribution of meteoritic ions in the upper atmosphere of Mars as observed by MAVEN’s mass spectrometer
M. Benna, J. M. Grebowsky, N. Srivastava, J. M. C. Plane, and P. R. Mahaffy
18:00–18:15
EPSC2017-29
Impact of Crustal Magnetic Fields on Day-to-night Plasma Transport in the Martian Ionosphere
J. Cui, Y.-T. Cao, and Y. Wei
18:15–18:30
EPSC2017-252
Effect of the lateral exospheric transport on the horizontal hydrogen distribution at the exobase of Mars
J.-Y. Chaufray, R. Yelle, F. Gonzalez-Galindo, F. Forget, M. Lopez-Valverde, F. Leblanc, and R. Modolo
18:30–18:45
EPSC2017-754
Influence of Suprathermal Atoms on the Escape and Evolution of Mars' CO2 Atmosphere
H. Lichtenegger, U. V. Amerstorfer, H. Gröller, F. Tian, H. Lammer, L. Noack, C. Johnstone, and L. Tu
18:45–19:00
EPSC2017-58
On Mars' atmospheric sputtering after MAVEN first two years
F. Leblanc, R. Modolo, S. Curry, J.G. Luhmann, R. Lillis, J.Y. Chaufray, T. Hara, J. McFadden, J. Halekas, F. Eparvier, D. Larson, J. Connerney, and B. Jakosky
19:00–19:15
EPSC2017-259
Mars proton aurora: energy deposition and Lyman-α line profile
JC Gérard, B Hubert, D.V. Bisikalo, and V.I. Shematovich
Akatsuki science highlights


Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Room Saturn
09:00–09:15
EPSC2017-403
Initial results of the radio occultation experiment in the Venus orbiter mission Akatsuki
T. Imamura, H. Ando, K. Noguchi, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, and B. Häusler
09:15–09:30
EPSC2017-385
Variability of the cloud-top altitude deduced from radio occultation experiments and thermal mapping obtained by LIR onboard Akatsuki
T. Fukuhara, H. Ando, T. Imamura, M. Takagi, and M. Taguchi and the LIR/RS project team
09:30–09:45
EPSC2017-409
Cloud tracking of the Venus atmosphere with Akatsuki: High-quality wind snapshots, jets, and instabilities
T. Horinouchi, S. Murakami, T. Satoh, S. Watanabe, T. Kouyama, K. Ogohara, T Imamura, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, J. Peralta, S.S. Limaye, T.M. Sato, M. Nakamura, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, and E.F. Young
09:45–10:00
EPSC2017-525
Akatsuki (space based cloud-tracking) and TNG/HARPS-N (ground based Doppler velocimetry) coordinated wind measurements of cloud top Venus’ atmosphere
R. Gonçalves, P. Machado, J. Peralta, Y. J. Lee, T. Widemann, and A. Harutyunyan
10:00–10:15
EPSC2017-77
AKATSUKI-IR2 reveals unexpected opacity disruption affecting Venus's lower clouds every 9 days
J. Peralta, T. Satoh, T. Horinouchi, K. Ogohara, T. Kouyama, S. Murakami, T. Imamura, K. McGouldrick, T. M. Sato, S. Limaye, E. García-Melendo, A. Sánchez-Lavega, and R. Hueso
10:15–10:30
EPSC2017-886
Planetary-scale streak structures produced in a high-resolution simulation of Venus atmosphere
H. Kashimura, N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, W. Ohfuchi, T. Enomoto, K. Nakajima, M. Ishiwatari, T. M. Sato, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Satoh, Y. O. Takahashi, and Y.-Y. Hayashi
Chemistry and composition

Coffee break
11:00–11:15
EPSC2017-165 | presentation
Reanalysis of the SPICAV-UV nadir spectra on the day side of Venus: SO2 , O3 and other UV absorbers
E. Marcq, L. Baggio, F. Lefèvre, F. Montmessin, and J.-L. Bertaux
11:15–11:30
EPSC2017-17
Disulfur dioxide and its NUV absorption in the photochemical model of Venus atmosphere
V. Krasnopolsky
11:30–11:45
EPSC2017-168
A new measurement of D/H on Mars using EXES aboard SOFIA
T. Encrenaz, C. DeWitt, M. J. Richter, T. K. Greathouse, T. Fouchet, F. Montmessin, F. Lefèvre, B. Bézard, S. K. Atreya, and S. Aoki
11:45–12:00
EPSC2017-156
Simulation of the high-resolution water cycle and HDO/H_2O isotopic fractionation on Mars using DRAMATIC MGCM
Dr. Kuroda
12:00–12:15
EPSC2017-629
Water vapour in the middle atmosphere of Mars by SPICAM/MEX
A. Fedorova, D. Betsis, J.-L. Bertaux, O. Korablev, and F. Montmessin
12:15–12:30
EPSC2017-460
Sensitive search of CH4 on Mars by SOFIA/EXES
S. Aoki, M. J. Richter, C. DeWitt, A. Boogert, T. Encrenaz, H. Sagawa, H. Nakagawa, A. C. Vandaele, M. Giuranna, T. K. Greathouse, T. Fouchet, A. Geminale, G. Sindoni, M. McKelvey, M. Case, and Y. Kasaba
Lunch break
14:00–14:15
EPSC2017-12
Annual mean mixing ratios of N2, Ar, O2, and CO in the martian atmosphere
V. Krasnopolsky
14:15–14:30
EPSC2017-673 | presentation
Constraining the MSL-SAM methane detection source location Through Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (MRAMS)
J. Pla Garcia and S.C.R. Rafkin
Missions and methods

14:30–14:45
EPSC2017-175
Seasonal and interannual variations of H2O2 on Mars
T. Encrenaz, T. K. Greathouse, F. Lefèvre, F. Montmessin, T. Fouchet, B. Bézard, S. K. Atreya, B. Gondet, A. Fedorova, and P. Hartogh
14:45–15:00
EPSC2017-221
Synergistic retrieval of H2O vapor in Mars’ atmosphere: the path to a systematic 3D exploration of H2O vapor
F. Montmessin and S. Ferron
15:00–15:15
EPSC2017-530
A test case: new retrievals of ozone at the terminator on Mars
A. Piccialli, A. C. Vandaele, S. Robert, F. Daerden, S. Viscardy, L. Neary, S. Aoki, V. Wilquet, F. Lefèvre, A. Määttänen, and F. Montmessin
Coffee break
16:00–16:30
EPSC2017-614
Atmospheric Mars Entry and Landing Investigations & Analysis (AMELIA) by ExoMars 2016 Schiaparelli Entry Descent Module
F. Ferri, O. Karatekin, A. Aboudan, B. VanHove, C. Colombatti, C. Bettanini, S. Debei, S. Lewis, and F. Forget
16:30–16:45
EPSC2017-779
Mars Express science highlights and future plans
D. Titov, J. P. Bibring, A. Cardesin, T. Duxbury, F. Forget, M. Giuranna, F. González-Galindo, M. Holmström, R. Jaumann, A. Määttänen, P. Martin, F. Montmessin, R. Orosei, M. Pätzold, and J. Plaut
16:45–17:45
Discussion: Observations with Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter