A nonhydrostatic model of the global circulation of the atmosphere of venus

The mechanisms of the global circulation in the atmosphere of Venus have been studied with the use of numerical models. To calculate the heating/cooling of the atmosphere due to absorption/emission of electromagnetic radiation under initially weak and strong superrotation of the atmosphere, the complete system of gas dynamics equations in the relaxation approximation was considered. It has been shown that at sufficiently high rates of heating of the atmosphere by radiation on the day side and at sufficiently high rates of cooling on the night side, a thermal tide develops at altitudes of 40-70 km, and its energy and impulse is transferred to the zonal superrotation of the atmosphere. Due to the interaction between the superrotation and the meridional transfer of the air mass through the polar region from the day side of the planet to the night side, near-polar vortices are formed at altitudes of 40-70 km near the morning terminator.