Properties of scatterers in the troposphere and lower stratosphere of Uranus based on Voyager imaging data
Abstract
Scalar and vector radiative transfer and microphysical models are presently constructed from photometrically and geometrically corrected Voyager images of Uranus defining spatially-resolved intensities over a range of phase angles for two latitude bands. The methane ice cloud occupying 1.2-1.3 bar is of 0.7 optical depth at 22.5 deg S, rising to 2.4 at 65 deg S; the volume absorption coefficient of the cloud particles is 50 percent greater at the low latitude than at the high, assuming constant mean cloud particle size. The scattering model also includes photochemically-produced stratospheric hydrocarbon ices in the upper troposphere and stratosphere, as well as an optically thick hydrogen sulfide cloud. 34 refs.
- Authors:
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- Mycol, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (USA) NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (USA) Arizona Univ., Tucson (USA)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5756456
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Icarus (International Journal of the Solar System); (USA)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 89; Journal ID: ISSN 0019-1035
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; URANUS PLANET; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES; ATTENUATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HYDROCARBONS; ICE; IMAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANE; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION TRANSPORT; VOYAGER SPACE PROBES; ALKANES; ATMOSPHERES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANETS; SPACE VEHICLES; VEHICLES; 640107* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Planetary Phenomena
Citation Formats
Rages, K, Pollack, J B, Tomasko, M G, and Doose, L R. Properties of scatterers in the troposphere and lower stratosphere of Uranus based on Voyager imaging data. United States: N. p., 1991.
Web. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(91)90183-T.
Rages, K, Pollack, J B, Tomasko, M G, & Doose, L R. Properties of scatterers in the troposphere and lower stratosphere of Uranus based on Voyager imaging data. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(91)90183-T
Rages, K, Pollack, J B, Tomasko, M G, and Doose, L R. 1991.
"Properties of scatterers in the troposphere and lower stratosphere of Uranus based on Voyager imaging data". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(91)90183-T.
@article{osti_5756456,
title = {Properties of scatterers in the troposphere and lower stratosphere of Uranus based on Voyager imaging data},
author = {Rages, K and Pollack, J B and Tomasko, M G and Doose, L R},
abstractNote = {Scalar and vector radiative transfer and microphysical models are presently constructed from photometrically and geometrically corrected Voyager images of Uranus defining spatially-resolved intensities over a range of phase angles for two latitude bands. The methane ice cloud occupying 1.2-1.3 bar is of 0.7 optical depth at 22.5 deg S, rising to 2.4 at 65 deg S; the volume absorption coefficient of the cloud particles is 50 percent greater at the low latitude than at the high, assuming constant mean cloud particle size. The scattering model also includes photochemically-produced stratospheric hydrocarbon ices in the upper troposphere and stratosphere, as well as an optically thick hydrogen sulfide cloud. 34 refs.},
doi = {10.1016/0019-1035(91)90183-T},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5756456},
journal = {Icarus (International Journal of the Solar System); (USA)},
issn = {0019-1035},
number = ,
volume = 89,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1991}
}
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