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PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
Sébastien LEBONNOISCNRS Researcher
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
4. Global Climate Modeling
Virtual planets
Different models for different scales
Successes, and lessons from failure
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
Global Climate Modeling
Forget F. and Lebonnois S., « Global climate models of the terrestrial planets »Comparative Climatology of the Terrestrial Planets, S.J. Maxwell et al. Eds.
University of Arizona, Tuscon, 2013
Virtual planets
Different models for different scales
Successes, and lessons from failure
Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
Global Climate Modeling
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
GCM : General Circulation Models
First GCMs were designed in late 50's, early 60's
Design : mandatory bricks
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GCM : Global Climate Models
Because an atmosphere is a complex, coupled system
Additional processesPhotochemistry
Microphysics
Dust cycle
OceanBiosphere
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GCM : Global Climate Models
Earth
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The dynamical core
6 equations- 6 variables, dynamical and thermodynamical- Forcings and planetary constants
Zonal momentum
Meridional momentum
Hydrostatic balance
Mass conservation
First principal of thermodynamics with
Ideal gas equation of state
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The dynamical core
Different types of GCM
Hydrostatic vs Quasi-hydrostatic
Shallow atmosphere vs Deep atmosphere
Cp(T), Cp(composition)
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Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
The dynamical core
Horizontal discretization
Conservation concerns : mass, energy, angular momentum
Finite differences, finite volumes
Time marching scheme
Spectral (spherical harmonics), spectral elements
Vertical discretization : mass, altitude, pressure...
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The radiative transfer
Strategy : fast computation ; versatility
Usual approach to gas opacities : correlated-k distribution
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Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
Physics processes
Virtual planets
Different models for different scales
Successes, and lessons from failure
Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
Global Climate Modeling
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
Large Eddy Similations :
small scale (1-1000m), idealized, non-hydrostatic models
=> study small-scale processes : turbulence, convectiongravity waves
Small-scale processes
Venus convective layer in cloud : gravity waves
Titan methane convective clouds
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Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
Intermediate-scale processes
Regional Climate Models :
- Intermediate scales => small-scales parameterized
- non-hydrostatic
- boundary conditions from GCMs
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Intermediate-scale processes
Regional Climate Models
Dust optical depth
Temperature
Vertical wind
Potential temperature
Example : rocket dust storm on Mars(Spiga et al, 2013)
Virtual planets
Different models for different scales
Successes, and lessons from failure
Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
Global Climate Modeling
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics – Solar System Exploration
Planetary Atmospheres – 4. Global Climate Modeling
Mars climate
Water and cloud cycles
TES observations GCM simulations
Water vapor
Clouds
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Mars climate
Heterogeneous chemistry
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Only gas photochemistryWith heterogeneous chemistryon ice cloud particles
Solar longitude
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Mars paleoclimate
Non-polar glaciers, millions of years ago
MARSIl y a 5 M d'années...
Fan shaped deposits, drop moraines characteristic of cold based glaciers.
Rock glaciers
Glacier formation :Ice accumulation rate (mm/y)with obliquity=45°
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Venus superrotation
Zonal wind (m/s)
GCM
In-situ observations(Pioneer Venus, Venera)
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Titan superrotation
Vertical profile Huygens/DWE
at 10°S(Ls ~ 300°)
Cassini/CIRS Cassini/CIRS thermal windthermal wind(Ls ~ 300°)(Ls ~ 300°)
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Titan detached haze layer
Aerosol formation
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Titan boundary layer
Potential temperature (K)
Lapse rate (K km-1)
Observations
Adiabat
10:00 LTGCM
GCM
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Titan equatorial dunes
Mesoscale (2D only) simulation of an equinox storm Dunes orientation
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Without storms
With storms
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Lessons from failure
➔ Missing physical processes Radiative effect of Martian clouds➔ Insuffisant representation of physical processes :
• complex sub-scale processes Terrestrial clouds – gravity waves
• Positives retroactions, instabilities Rétroaction due to ice albedo
• Non-linearities, thresholds Martian dust storms➔ Long time scales, sensitivity to initial state Pluto ices➔ Weak forcings : when the system evolution is sensitive to a subtle balance between processes, and not driven by a strong forcing
Superrotation
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Terrestrial clouds
Complex microphysicsand small-scale dynamics
Precipitations in a GCMGlobal scale, coarse resolution (~100 km)
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Martian dust storms
Strong positive retroaction of dust on circulation and on dust lifting
Clear atmosphere
Dust storm
(LMD Mars GCM)
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Martian dust storms
Difficult to reproduce the interannual variability...
Clear atmosphere
Dust storm
Dust stom
year1 year 2 year 3 year 4
Dust storm
(Oxford Mars GCM)
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Titan superrotation
Same GCM, corrections in the dissipation formulation
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Venus superrotation
CCSR
LMD
Several dynamical cores, same simplified physics
OU LR10a
UCLAOX LR10b
LR10cspectral
finite differences
finite vo lume
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Suggested bibliography
- A. Sánchez-Lavega, An Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2011, ISBN 9781420067354.
- Forget F. and Lebonnois S., « Global climate models of the terrestrial planets » + Dowling T., « Earth General Circulation Models » in Comparative Climatology of the Terrestrial Planets, S.J. Maxwell et al. Eds.University of Arizona, Tuscon, 2013
Acknowledgements
- thanks to the authors of all the images and plots I showed. I can send references upon request
- thanks to Julia and Javier for the invitation and this great Winter School.
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