We aim at advancing our knowledge of the terrestrial atmosphere in two major aspects: the impact of solar irradiance and energetic particle precipitation variabilities on the atmospheric composition and climate, and study the trends in temperature, composition and energy balance in the middle and upper atmosphere and their possible links to climate change. Further, we will continue our studies on exo-atmospheres (detection of molecules, measuring winds, and studying the atmospheric escape in hot Jupiters).
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
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The project aims at studying the water escape in Mars' atmosphere, both in present and in past conditions where the orbital parameters of Mars were different from those of today.
It is currently well known that the climates of Mars, Venus and the Earth have followed different evolutionary paths. The Martian case, with evidences of warmer and wetter climate in the past, is very intriguing. Mars primitive atmosphere may have been quite similar to the current terrestrial atmosphere. Understanding how early Mars evolved into the inhabitable planet can provide clues on the response of...
The basic goal of this project is to continue the IAA participation in the NOMAD experiment and to contribute to the scientific exploitation of both instruments NOMAD and ACS. We propose to advance in two directions: (1) the study of trace gases, including detection, retrieval of precise abundances and their spatial and temporal distribution, and (2) the composition and thermal structure...
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (MINECO, Spain), co-financed with FEDER Funds
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In this project we investigate several fundamental aspects of the Earth's atmosphere, and reinforce the emerging research line in our Group of exo-planetary atmospheres.
With regards to the Earth's atmosphere, we plan to study the impact of solar variability (including both radiation and energetic particle precipitation, EPP) on the atmospheric composition, temperature structure and climate. Specifically we aim at 1) determining the relevance of EPP for regional climate, 2) quantifying long-term impacts by secular solar activity variations, and 3) understanding the coupling of...
The proposed research objectives are: 1. To improve the current physical models describing the upper atmosphere of Mars, in particular the Global Climate Model, LMD-MGCM 2. To apply those models to the scientific exploitation of the NASA mission MAVEN
The primary goal of the project is the scientific exploitation of the first data collected by NOMAD and to tackle a number of high interest open problems in Martian research. This project is, to a high degree, the continuation of two previous projects of the Plan Nacional, which have contributed to boost the Spanish participation in the NOMAD experiment of the ExoMars TGO orbiter during the last years. Our team participates at the Co-PI level in this instrument. The present project aims at representing the scientific exploitation of the data to be taken by that instrument, and is thus the...
UPWARDS had as its overarching objective the revision and exploitation of data from the European Mars Express (MEx) mission as well as other Martian missions using a synergistic combination of state-of-the-art atmospheric/subsurface models and novel retrieval tools. UPWARDS goals were:
to address major open science questions which require an integrated...
In this project we propose to investigate several fundamental aspects of the Earth's atmosphere, as well as those of Venus and Titan, and to start a new research line on exoplanet atmospheres.
With regards to the Earth's atmosphere, firstly, we will build up climatologies from MIPAS measurements of the temperature and key atmospheric species spanning from the troposphere up to the thermosphere and over 12 years. These datasets will also be merged with the measurements of other 7 satellite instruments. These are crucial data for understanding the global atmosphere, its evolution,...
