Venus atmospheric profiles - From SPICAV-SOIR on board VEx version w23.00

doi:doi:10.18758/71021089

Venus atmospheric profiles - From SPICAV-SOIR on board VEx version w23.00

Vertical profiles of density of CO2, CO, H2O, HDO, HF, H35Cl, H37Cl, SO2 and aerosols in the Venus upper atmosphere at the terminator. Data retrieved from calibrated spectra obtained with the SPICAV-SOIR instrument on board the Venus Express spacecraft.

The retrieval method and the derived data is presented and analysed in several papers. See:
* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2015.02.002 for CO2 density and temperature,
* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2015.08.012 for a summary,
* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.02.025 for CO or Wilquet et al. (2012)
* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.002 for the aerosols.

This dataset was presented in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2017.04.022 for description of the dataset on the Vespa portal

The dataset is present in VOtables format.
The data in each files are vertical profiles of density for the species which can be CO2, CO, H2O (H2O_1 for H2O except HDO, H2O_4 for HDO), HF, HCl (HCl_1 for H35Cl, HCl_2 for H37Cl), SO2 and Aerosols. The files also contains the vertical profile of pressure "p" and temperature "t".
The density "n_", logarithm of the density "log_n_" and volume mixing ratio "vmr_" are provided for scale heights from 0.1 to 1.0 by step of 0.1. This scale height impacts the smoothing of the profiles.
The corresponding uncertainties on the vertical profiles are the variables starting with "err_"

The data concerning the geometry of the measurements: solar longitude, and local time, latitude, longitude corresponding to the profile are also provided in the same files.

Data and Resources

AEROSOLS SOIR W23 XML
5361 VOtable formatted Files

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CO SOIR W23 XML
236 VOTables formatted files

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CO2 SOIR W23 XML
645 VOTables formatted files

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H2O_1 SOIR W23 XML
293 VOTables formatted files

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H2O_4 SOIR W23 XML
245 VOTables formatted files

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HCL_1 SOIR W23 XML
336 VOTables formatted files

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HCL_2 SOIR W23 XML
331 VOTables formatted files

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HF SOIR W23 XML
209 VOTables formatted files

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SO2 SOIR W23 XML
11 VOTables formatted files

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Vandaele, A. C., Mahieux, A., Wilquet, V., Chamberlain, S., & Trompet, L. (2024). Venus atmospheric profiles - From SPICAV-SOIR on board VEx version w23.00 (Version w23.00) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021089

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Author(s)
Principal	Vandaele, Ann Carine, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Other(s)	Mahieux, Arnaud, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy; Wilquet, Valérie, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy; Chamberlain, Sarah, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy; Trompet, Loïc, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy;
Contact	data-contact of Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Technical info
Is referenced by	Trompet, L., Geunes, Y., Ooms, T., Mahieux, A., Wilquet, V., Chamberlain, S., Robert, S., Thomas, I. R., Erard, S., Cecconi, B., Le Sidaner, P., & Vandaele, A. C. (2018). Description, accessibility and usage of SOIR/Venus Express atmospheric profiles of Venus distributed in VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access). Planetary and Space Science, 150, 60-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2017.04.022 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science) Wilquet, V., Drummond, R., Mahieux, A., Robert, S., Vandaele, A. C., & Bertaux, J.-L. (2012). Optical extinction due to aerosols in the upper haze of Venus: Four years of SOIR/VEX observations from 2006 to 2010. Icarus, 217(2), 875-881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.002 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science) Vandaele, A. C., Mahieux, A., Chamberlain, S., Ristic, B., Robert, S., Thomas, I. R., Trompet, L., Wilquet, V., & Bertaux, J. L. (2016). Carbon monoxide observed in Venus' atmosphere with SOIR/Vex. Icarus, 272, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.02.025 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science) Vandaele, A. C., Chamberlain, S., Mahieux, A., Ristic, B., Robert, S., Thomas, I., Trompet, L., Wilquet, V., Belyaev, D., Fedorova, A., Korablev, O., & Bertaux, J. L. (2016). Contribution from SOIR/VEX to the updated Venus International Reference Atmosphere (VIRA). Advances in Space Research, 57(1), 443-458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2015.08.012 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science) Mahieux, A., Vandaele, A. C., Bougher, S. W., Drummond, R., Robert, S., Wilquet, V., Chamberlain, S., Piccialli, A., Montmessin, F., Tellmann, S., Pätzold, M., Häusler, B., & Bertaux, J. L. (2015). Update of the Venus density and temperature profiles at high altitude measured by SOIR on board Venus Express. Planetary and Space Science, 113-114, 309-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2015.02.002 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
Documentation	Vespa Portal for SOIR https://vespa.obspm.fr/planetary/data/display/?&service_id=ivo://bira-iasb/soir/soir_q/epn_core

Temporal features
Starting	May 12, 2006
Ending	November 27, 2014

Additional info
Conforms to	https://www.ivoa.net/documents/VOTable/
Repository homepage	https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/
Last Updated	July 28, 2026
Created	April 25, 2017

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Venus atmospheric profiles - From SPICAV-SOIR on board VEx version w23.00

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