Jupiter photochemical models at 60N

Description

The folder contains files of the photochemical model output presented in Moses & Poppe, 2017, Icarus 297, 33-58 but with model output at 60N. Readers are directed to Moses & Poppe, 2017, Icarus 297, 33-58 for further details of the photochemical model. The files presented here represent model output over a range of different slopes for the eddy diffusion coefficient profile at pressures lower than 0.01 mbar, which results in a range of hydrocarbon homopause levels, as listed below. The same model grid was presented in Sinclair et al., 2025, Planetary Science Journal 6:15 and Rodrìguez et al., 2024, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 129, e2024JE008299. Filename Homopause level (nbar) ---------- kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt0.pun 754 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt1.pun 617 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt2.pun 488 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt3.pun 376 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt4.pun 286 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt5.pun 222 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt6.pun 168 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt7.pun 119 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt8.pun 74 kinjup60n_kzzslope0pt9.pun 35 kinjup60n_kzzslope1pt0.pun 4.5 kinjup60n_kzzslope1pt1.pun 0.52 kinjup60n_kzzslope1pt2.pun 0.52

Steps to reproduce

Each .pun file is in ASCII row format, with the first entries being altitude (km), pressure (mbar), temperature (K), atmospheric density (cm^-3), eddy Kzz (cm^2 s^-1), wind (ignore), and then entries for species concentrations (cm^-3), with the species name in the header for each individual species. Divide the species concentrations by total atmospheric density at each grid level to get volume mixing ratio (mole fractions).

Institutions

• Space Science Institute

  Colorado, Boulder
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  California, Pasadena

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