Evaluation of new radio occultation observations among small satellites at Venus by data assimilation
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| author | Fujisawa, Yukiko Sugimoto, Norihiko Ao, Chi Hosono, Asako Ando, Hiroki Takagi, Masahiro Garate-Lopez, Itziar Lebonnois, Sebastien |
| author_facet | Fujisawa, Yukiko Sugimoto, Norihiko Ao, Chi Hosono, Asako Ando, Hiroki Takagi, Masahiro Garate-Lopez, Itziar Lebonnois, Sebastien |
| contents | We conducted observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) for radio occultation measurements (RO) among small satellites, which are expected to be useful for future Venus missions. The effectiveness of the observations based on realistic orbit calculations was evaluated by reproduction of the "cold collar", a unique thermal structure in the polar atmosphere of Venus. Pseudo-temperature observations for the OSSEs were provided from the Venus atmospheric GCM in which the cold collar was reproduced by the thermal forcing. The vertical temperature distributions between 40 and 90 km altitudes at observation points were assimilated. The result showed that the cold collar was most clearly reproduced in the case where the temperature field in high-latitudes was observed twice a day, suggesting that the proposed observation is quite effective to improve the polar atmospheric structure at least. Although the cold collar was also reproduced in the OSSEs for Longwave Infrared Camera (LIR) observations, the result seemed unrealistic and inefficient compared to that obtained in the RO OSSEs. The present study shows that the OSSEs can be used to evaluate observation plans and instruments in terms of reproducibility of specific atmospheric phenomena, and applied to future missions targeting planetary atmospheres. |
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| spellingShingle | Evaluation of new radio occultation observations among small satellites at Venus by data assimilation Fujisawa, Yukiko Sugimoto, Norihiko Ao, Chi Hosono, Asako Ando, Hiroki Takagi, Masahiro Garate-Lopez, Itziar Lebonnois, Sebastien Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics We conducted observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) for radio occultation measurements (RO) among small satellites, which are expected to be useful for future Venus missions. The effectiveness of the observations based on realistic orbit calculations was evaluated by reproduction of the "cold collar", a unique thermal structure in the polar atmosphere of Venus. Pseudo-temperature observations for the OSSEs were provided from the Venus atmospheric GCM in which the cold collar was reproduced by the thermal forcing. The vertical temperature distributions between 40 and 90 km altitudes at observation points were assimilated. The result showed that the cold collar was most clearly reproduced in the case where the temperature field in high-latitudes was observed twice a day, suggesting that the proposed observation is quite effective to improve the polar atmospheric structure at least. Although the cold collar was also reproduced in the OSSEs for Longwave Infrared Camera (LIR) observations, the result seemed unrealistic and inefficient compared to that obtained in the RO OSSEs. The present study shows that the OSSEs can be used to evaluate observation plans and instruments in terms of reproducibility of specific atmospheric phenomena, and applied to future missions targeting planetary atmospheres. |
| title | Evaluation of new radio occultation observations among small satellites at Venus by data assimilation |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16818 |