Titan atmosphere database
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Coupled haze-chemistry-circulation model
Up to the middle of the last decade, Titan was investigated through its different systems separately; circulation, haze, chemistry, aeronomy and so on. However, it became obvious that all these components of Titan climate were interacting together, and so was the conclusions of many papers at this time (e.g, Hourdin et al., 1995, Hutzell et al., 1993, Rannou et al., 1997). The first serious attempt to couple circulation and haze is to be credited to Hutzell et al. (1996). However, no feedback
Motivation for a database
The model was fixed to match several important results derived from observations, as temperature meridional profiles at 1 and 0.4 mbar retrieved from IRIS observation (Flasar and Conrath, 1990, Coustenis and Bézard, 1995), temperature vertical profile (Lellouch et al., 1989), zonal winds at 0.25 mbar (Hubbard et al., 1993), haze distribution at Voyager time (Smith et al., 1981, Smith et al., 1982, Rages and Pollack, 1983), related photometry (Sromovsky et al., 1981, Neff et al., 1984, Courtin et
The database on the web
We have chosen to write the codes of the database in Fortran 77. However, in principle, C routines are able to call Fortran 77 routine with minor adaptations. The “database” is composed of an ASCII file containing 49 × 55 × 32 values for each of the 31 fields. This database file is roughly 27 MB. Series of codes which read and make interpolations inside the database is also available. Finally two codes (interfaces) show how to call the database and display its results. A first code is a simple
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