I2. Aeronomy of planetary Atmospheres : comparative planetology

First Convener: Athena Coustenis, LESIA (Bat 18), Observatoire de Meudon, 92195, Meudon Cedex, France, Tel: 331 45 07 77 20; Fax: 331 45 07 74 69; Athena.Coustenis@obspm.fr

Co-conveners:
Jianping Li, National Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100029, China, Tel: +86-10-62035479, Fax: +86-10-62043526,
ljp@lasg.iap.ac.cn
Mu Mu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100029, China, Tel: +86-10-62043317, Fax: +86-10-62043526, mumu@lasg.iap.ac.cn

Wednesday, 3 August

Chair: Athena Coustenis (Observatoire de Meudon, France, Athena.Coustenis@obspm.fr)

16:00-16:25

George Hashimoto

(I) Venus' nightside near-infrared thermal radiation: windows for sensing Venus' clouds, lower atmosphere, and surface

16:25-16:50

Tom Slanger

(I) Comparison of the Nightglows of Venus, Earth, and Mars

16:50-17:15

Michael Stevens

(I) The EUV airglow of N2 atmospheres: Justifying observations from Earth with those from Titan and Triton

17:15-17:50

David L. Huestis

(I) Critical Evaluation of Chemical Reaction Rates and Collision Cross Sections of Importance in the Earth''s Upper Atmosphere and the Atmospheres of other Planets, Moons, and Comets

Thursday, 4 August

Chair: Jianping Li (Institute of Atmospherics Physics, China, ljp@lasg.iap.ac.cn)

8:30-8:55

Darrell Strobel

(I) Comparative Planetary Aeronomy: Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn with Thin Atmospheres

8:55-9:20

Sushil Atreya

(I) The New Mars: Organics, Oxidants, Life, Habitability

9:20-9:35

Wensong Weng

Modelling the Martian atmospheric boundary layer with E-l turbulence closure scheme

9:35-9:50

Therese Schneck

Titan and Mars residual Paleoatmosphere

10:00-10:30 coffee break

Chair: Mu Mu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, mumu@lasg.iap.ac.cn)

10:20-10:45

Athena Coustenis

(I) Titan and the Earth: comparisons in view of the recent Cassini-Huygens observations

10:45-11:00

Renqiang Liu

Resonant nonlinear interactions between atmospheric tides in the mid-latitude winter lower thermosphere

11:00-11:15

Alexander Kostrikov

Katabatic Wind over Axisymmetric Ice Domes

11:15-11:18

Wenlan Wang

A new view on the ferrel cell

11:18-11:21

Suresh Chandra

A Computational Study of Thermal Buckling in Plates