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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2024

Impact of the Turbulent Vertical Mixing on Chemical and Cloud Species in the Venus Cloud Layer

Maxence Lefevre
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Franck Lefèvre
Emmanuel Marcq
Anni Määttänen
Nicolas Streel

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The Venusian atmosphere hosts a 10 km deep convective layer that has been studied by various spacecrafts. However, the impact of the strong vertical mixing on the chemistry of this region is still unknown. This study presents the first realistic coupling between resolved small‐scale turbulence and a chemical network. The resulting vertical mixing is different for each species: those with longer chemical timescales will tend to be well‐mixed. Vertical eddy diffusion due to resolved convection motions was estimated, ranging from 102 to 104 m2/s for the 48–55 km convective layer, several orders of magnitude above the typically used value. In the 48–55 km convective layer, the impact of the small‐scale turbulence on the cloud layer boundaries was between 200 m and 1 km. The impact of turbulence on cloud chemistry is consistent with Venus Express/Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer observations. The observability at the cloud‐top of small‐scale turbulence by VenSpec‐U spectrometer would be challenging.
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insu-04617342 , version 1 (19-06-2024)

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Maxence Lefevre, Franck Lefèvre, Emmanuel Marcq, Anni Määttänen, Aurélien Stolzenbach, et al.. Impact of the Turbulent Vertical Mixing on Chemical and Cloud Species in the Venus Cloud Layer. Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, 51 (12), pp.e2024GL108771. ⟨10.1029/2024gl108771⟩. ⟨insu-04617342⟩
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