Venus Research Group
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford

Welcome to the Venus research group, based in the AOPP sub-department, Department of Physics, at the University of Oxford. We are currently involved with data analysis and interpretation of remote sensing infrared data from VIRTIS, onboard ESA Venus Express, as well as studies involving a General Circulation Model of the Venus atmosphere. We were also involved with NIMS and VORTEX observations of Venus onboard NASA Galileo and NASA Pioneer Venus.

 

Current Team

Prof. Fredric W. Taylor (homepage)
Prof. Peter L. Read (homepage)
Dr. Patrick G.J. Irwin (homepage)
Dr. Colin F. Wilson (homepage)
Dr. Constantine C.C. Tsang (homepage)
Ms. Joanna K. Barstow
Mr. Joao Mendonca

 

Publications
[1^st June, 2009]

2009

Taylor, F.W., and D. Grinspoon, Climate evolution of Venus, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 114, E00B40, doi:10.1029/2008JE003316, 2009

Tsang C.C.C., Taylor F.W., Wilson C.F., Liddell S.J., Irwin P.G.J., Piccioni G., Drossart P., Calcutt S.B. and the Venus Express/VIRTIS Team, “Variability of CO concentrations in the Venus troposphere from Venus Express/VIRTIS-M using a Band Ratio Technique”, ICARUS, Vol 201, Issue 2, Pages 432-443 , doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.001, 2009

Wilson C.F., Tsang C.C.C., Irwin P.G.J., Taylor F.W, Bezard B, Erard S., Carlson R.W., Drossart P., Piccioni G., Holmes, “Analysis of thermal emission from the nightside of Venus at 1.51 and 1.55 microns”, ICARUS, Vol 201, Issue 2, Pages 814-817 , doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.03.010, 2009

Svedhem, H., D. Titov, F.W. Taylor, and O. Witasse, Venus Express mission,  JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 114, E00B33, doi:10.1029/2008JE003290., 2009

Bezard B., Tsang C.C.C., Carlson R.W., Piccioni G., Marcq E., Drossart P., “The Water Vapor Abundance Near the Surface of Venus from Venus Express/VIRTIS observations", JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 114, E00B39, doi:10.1029/2008JE003251, 2009

E. Chassefière, O. Korablev, T. Imamura, K. H. Baines, C.F. Wilson, D.V. Titov, K.L. Aplin, T. Balint, J.E, Blamont, C.G. Cochrane, Cs. Ferencz, F. Ferri, M. Gerasimov, J.J. Leitner, J. Lopez-Moreno, B. Marty, M. Martynov, S. Pogrebenko, A. Rodin, J.A. Whiteway, L.V. Zasova , J. Michaud, R. Bertrand, J.-M. Charbonnier, D. Carbonne, P. Raizonville, and the EVE team, ‘European Venus Explorer (EVE): An in-situ mission to Venus using a balloon platform’, ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2008.11.025, 2009

E. Chassefière, O. Korablev, T. Imamura, K. H. Baines, C.F. Wilson, D.V. Titov, K.L. Aplin, T. Balint, J.E, Blamont, C.G. Cochrane, Cs. Ferencz, F. Ferri, M. Gerasimov, J.J. Leitner, J. Lopez-Moreno, B. Marty, M. Martynov, S. Pogrebenko, A. Rodin, J.A. Whiteway, L.V. Zasova , J. Michaud, R. Bertrand, J.-M. Charbonnier, D. Carbonne, P. Raizonville, and the EVE team, ‘European Venus Explorer (EVE): An in-situ mission to Venus’, EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY, Volume 23, Issue 3, pp.741-760,  doi:10.1007/s10686-008-9093-x., 2009.

 

2008

Irwin P.G.J., Teanby N.A., de Kok R., Fletcher L.N., Howett C.A., Tsang C.C.C., Wilson C.F., Calcutt S.B., Nixon C.A., Parrish P.D., “The NEMESIS planetary atmosphere radiative transfer and retrieval tool”, JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER, Vol. 109, Pg 1136-1150, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.11.006, 2008

Irwin P.G.J., de Kok R., Negrao A., Tsang C.C.C., Wilson, C.F., Drossart P., Piccioni G., Grassi D., Taylor F.W. and the Venus Express/VIRTIS Team, “Spatial variability of carbon monoxide in Venus’ mesosphere from Venus Express/Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer measurements”, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 113, E00B01, doi:10.1029/2008JE00309, 2008

Tsang C.C.C., Irwin P.G.J., Taylor F.W., Wilson C.F., Drossart P., Piccioni G., de Kok R., Lee C., Calcutt S.B. and the Venus Express/VIRTIS Team, “Tropospheric Carbon Monoxide Concentrations and Variability on Venus with Venus Express/VIRTIS-M Observations”, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 113, E00B08, doi:10.1029/2008JE003089, 2008

Tsang C.C.C., “Venus Express”, MCGRAW-HILL YEARBOOK OF SCIENCE 2008, McGraw-Hill Companies, Pg 362-364, isbn:0071548343/9780071548342, 2008

Tsang C.C.C., Irwin, P.G.J., Taylor, F.W., Wilson C.F., “A Correlated-k Model of Radiative Transfer in the Near Infrared Windows of Venus”, JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER, Vol. 109, Pg 1118-1135, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.12.008, 2008

Wilson C.F., Irwin, P.G.J., Guerlet S., Tsang C.C.C., Taylor F.W., Carlson R.W., Drossart P., Piccioni G. and Venus Express/VIRTIS Team ,‘Evidence for anomalous cloud particles at the poles of Venus’, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 113, E00B13, doi:10.1029/2008JE003108, 2008

Titov, D. V., F.W. Taylor, and H. Svedhem, Introduction to the special section on Venus Express: Results of the Nominal Mission,  JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 113, E00B19, doi:10.1029/2008JE003202, 2008

A. Sánchez-Lavega, R. Hueso, G. Piccioni, P. Drossart, J. Peralta, S. Pérez-Hoyos, C.F. Wilson, F. W. Taylor, K. H. Baines, D. Luz, S. Erard and S. Lebonnois, ‘Variable winds on Venus mapped in three dimensions’, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 35, L13204, doi:10.1029/2008GL033817, 2008

Müller N., Helbert J., Hashimoto G., Tsang C.C.C., Piccioni G., Drossart P. and Venus Express/VIRTIS Team, ‘Venus surface thermal emission at one micrometer in VIRTIS imaging observations - evidence for variation of crust and mantle differentiation conditions” JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, Vol. 113, E00B17, doi:10.1029/2008JE003118, 2008

 

2007

Lee C., Lewis S.R., Read P.L., Superrotation in a Venus GCM, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 112, E04S11, doi:10.1029/2006JE002874.2007

Drossart P., Piccioni G., Gerard J.C., Lopez-Valverde M.A., Sanchez-Lavega A., Zasova L., Hueso R., Taylor F.W., Bézard B., Adrianin A., Angrilli F., Arnold G., Baines K.H., Bellucci G., Benkhoff J., Bibring J.P., Blanco A., Blecka M.I., Carlson R.W., Coradini A., Di Lellis A., Encrenaz T., Erard S., Fonti S., Formisano V., Fouchet T., Garcia R., Haus R., Helbert J., Ignatiev N.I., Irwin P.G.J., Langevin Y., Lebonnois S., Luz D., Marinangeli L., Orofino V., Rodin A.V., Roos-Serote M.C., Saggin B., Stam D.M., Titov D., Visconti G., Zambelli M., Tsang, C.C.C. & the VIRTIS-Venus Express Technical Team, “Venus upper atmospheric emissions from VIRTIS spectral imaging observations”, NATURE, Vol. 450, Pg 641-645, doi:10.1038/nature06140, 2007

Drossart P., Piccioni G., Adriani A., Angrilli F., Arnold G., Baines K.H., Bellucci G., Benkhoff J., Bézard B., Bibring J.-P., Blanco A., Blecka M.I., Carlson R.W., Coradini A., Lellis Di., Encrenaz T., Erard S., Fonti S., Formisano V., Fouchet T., Garcia R., Haus R., Helbert J., Ignatiev N.I., Irwin P.G.J., Langevin Y., Lebonnois S., Lopez-Valverde M.A., Luz D., Marinangeli L., Orofino V., Rodin A.V., Roos-Serote M.C., Saggin B., Sanchez-Lavega A., Stam D.M., Taylor F.W., Titov D., Visconti G., Zambelli M., Hueso R., Tsang C.C.C., Wilson C.F. and Afanasenko T.Z., “Scientific goals for the observations of Venus by VIRTIS on ESA/Venus Express mission”, PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol. 55, Pg 1653–1672, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.003, 2007

Piccioni G., Drossart Pierre, Sánchez-Lavega A., Hueso R., Taylor F. W., Wilson C. F., Grassi Davide, Zasova L., Moriconi M., Adriani Alberto, Lebonnois S., Coradini A., Bézard Bruno, Angrilli Francesco, Arnold Gabriele, Baines K. H., Bellucci G., Benkhoff J., Bibring J. P., Blanco A., Blecka M. I., Carlson R. W., Di Lellis A., Encrenaz Thérèse, Erard Stéphane, Fonti S., Formisano V., Fouchet Thierry, Garcia R., Haus R., Helbert J., Ignatiev N. I., Irwin P. G. J., Langevin Y., Lopez-Valverde M. A., Luz David, Marinangeli L., Orofino V., Rodin A. V., Roos-Serote M. C., Saggin B., Stam D. M., Titov D., Visconti G., Zambelli M., South-polar features on Venus similar to those near the north pole., NATURE, vol. 450, pp. 637-640., 2007

2006

Taylor F.W., Venus before Venus Express, PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE, 54, 1249-1262, 2006