Search
Now showing items 1-6 of 6
The Upper Atmosphere of Jupiter
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The aeronomy of Jupiter's atmosphere at pressures <25 mb is surveyed. Attention is drawn to those areas most in need of further work, including both planetary and laboratory studies. The heat balance is still uncertain at ...
The Escape of Light Gases from Planetary Atmospheres
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Jeans-Spitzer treatment of atmospheric escape by evaporation must be supplemented, for a mixture of gases, by a discussion of the mutual diffusion and mixing of the components. A recent description for the atmosphere ...
Production and Escape of Terrestrial Hydrogen
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The agronomy of hydrogen and its compounds is discussed in a simplified model intended to represent a diurnal and global average. Vertical transport by eddy and molecular diffusion is included for the major components H2O, ...
Smoke and Dust Particles of Meteoric Origin in the Mesosphere and Stratosphere
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A height profile of ablated mass from meteors is calculated, assuming an incoming mass of 10?16 g cm?2 s?1 (44 metric tons per day) and the velocity distribution of Southworth and Sekanina, which has a mean of 14.5 km s?1. ...