Information on resource 'Abundancy Vertical Profile at Titan with Cassini/CIRS'

This database contains vertical profiles of temperature and composition in Titan's atmosphere at several altitudes below 750 km. These profiles were retrieved from the infrared spectra acquired by the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) aboard the Cassini spacecraft. The retrieval method and the description of the used dataset are detailed by Vinatier et al. (2010), and completed in Mathé et al. (2020), and Vinatier et al. (2020).

References

  • Vinatier et al. (2010) Analysis of Cassini/CIRS limb spectra of Titan acquired during the nominal mission: I. Hydrocarbons, nitriles and CO2 vertical mixing ratio profiles. Icarus, 206(2), 559-570. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.08.013
  • Mathé et al. (2020) Seasonal changes in the middle atmosphere of Titan from Cassini/CIRS observations: Temperature and trace species abundance profiles from 2004 to 2017. Icarus, 344, 113547. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113547
  • Vinatier et al. (2020), Temperature and chemical species distributions in the middle atmosphere observed during Titan's late northern spring to early summer. A&A 641, A116; doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202038411

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Any related re-use or publication of this content should cite this database. This work is supported by Observatoire de Paris-PSL, CNRS and PADC (Paris Astronomical Data Centre) and VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access), which received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, through the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (GA 871149) and Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (GA 654208) projects.

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