Planetary Atmospheres: From Solar System to Exoplanets (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Planetary Atmospheres".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 96
Special Issue Editor
Interests: atmospheres; atmosphere dynamics; spectroscopy; cloud-tracking; atmospheric composition; exoplanets; astrobiology; ARIEL space mission
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the second edition of a series of publications dedicated to “Planetary Atmospheres: From Solar System to Exoplanets”: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/solar_exoplanets.
There is currently a considerable effort from the science community to study the planetary atmospheres, within and beyond our Solar System. Nevertheless, the knowledge of all mechanisms at work on Solar System planet atmospheres is still limited. An understanding of the dominant factors and mechanisms controlling the atmospheric general circulation and its chemical composition is a prerequisite to our understanding of planets' climate variability and evolution. In this context, Solar System's gas giant planets, as well as telluric planets, are natural comparative laboratories to investigate the diversity of circulation regimes and the composition of planetary systems' atmospheres.
Planetary atmospheres' temporal and spatial variability of winds, the role of waves, and the mechanisms that allow topography to influence the upper cloud motions need to be addressed. There are still several open questions related with Solar System planets' atmospheres as is the case of the Venusian volcanism and its atmospheric impact, the source of the Venus atmosphere's super rotation, the origin of the methane detected on Mars, and how the "red planet" lost most of its water. Regarding the gas giants, there are also several mysteries that need to be addressed in order that we learn from our backyard's planets to better undergo a new quest in planetary systems research that relies on the characterization of exoplanets' atmospheres.
Dr. Pedro MacHado
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- atmospheres
- rocky planets
- atmosphere dynamics
- atmospheric waves
- atmosphere’s modeling
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