Japanese-French model studies of planetary atmospheres

General information

• Venue Center for Planetary Science (CPS), Kobe University
• Period May 11th - 15th, 2015
• Photos

This seminar is supported by Bilateral Programs of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

Agenda and list of talks

Below are list of talks in each days. Strict time schedule is not decided.

Monday 11th May:

• Opening remarks
• Model development/maintenance activities in France and Japan
  • Planetary atmosphere modelling and other activities at LMD, IPSL (F. Forget, LMD) [video]
  • Model development in GFD Dennou Club (Y. O. Takahashi, Kobe U.) [video]
  • Development of the Japanese-German Mars GCMs: Toward the coupling between lower and upper atmosphere (T. Kuroda, Tohoku U.) [video]
  • Organization and technical aspects of LMD model developments (E. Millour, LMD) [video]
  • Our model development activity in RIKEN AICS -introduction of SCALE and SCALE-LES- (S. Nishizawa, RIKEN) [video]
  • Discussion

Tuesday 12th May:

• Modeling of terrestrial planets
  • Mars Global Climate Model (GCM) (F. Forget, LMD) [video]
  • Ensemble experiments of Mars atmosphere using a GCM (K. Ogohara, Shiga Pref. U.)
  • A numerical study on convection of a condensing CO2 atmosphere under an early Mars like condition (M. Odaka, Hokkaido U.) [video]
  • Mesoscale and microscale modeling for Mars (and a bit of Venus) (A. Spiga, LMD) [video]
  • Convectively-generated Gravity Waves on Mars and Their Influence on the Upper Atmosphere (T. Imamura, JAXA) [video]
  • Numerical Experiments on Dust Devils, Atmospheric Vortices, and Dust Transport on Earth (T. Takemi, Kyoto U.) [video]
  • Large eddy simulations for terrestrial convective mixed layers (J. Ito, MRI) [video]
  • Cloud tracking using sequential images from Venus Express VMC (T. Horinouchi, Hokkaido U.) [video]
  • Discussion
• Reception

Wednesday 13th May:

• Modeling of terrestrial planets (Cont.)
  • High resolution LES experiment on Marian PBL (S. Nishizawa, RIKEN) [video]
  • IPSL Venus GCM & IPSL Titan GCM (S. Lebonnois, LMD) [video]
  • General circulation and high-latitude atmospheric dynamics of a cloud-covered planet (M. Yamamoto, Kyushu U.) [video]
  • Atmospheric structure of Venusian upper polar region reproduced by a general circulation model (H. Ando, ISAS/JAXA)
  • Wave activities in the Venus atmospheres simulated in a GCM (M. Takagi, Kyoto Sangyo U.)
  • Discussion
• Exploration and observations, Future missions
  • A First Europian mission: Mars Express: The atmospheric dataset (F. Forget, LMD) [video]
  • Rederivation of MGS radio occultation's temperature with the consideration of CO2 condensation in the Martian atmosphere (K. Noguchi, Nara Women's U.) [video]
  • Future Japanese Mars EDL mission (K. Fujita, JAXA) [video]
  • Future Japanese Mars aeronomy mission (K. Seki, Nagoya U.)
  • Future lander observation by Japanese Mars EDL mission (N. Otobe, Fukuoka U.) [video]
  • Assessment of possible Mars landing site for Mars-EDL (K. Sugiyama, JAXA) [video]
  • Future Mars atmospheric observation by orbiters (T. Imamura, JAXA) [video]
  • Discussion

Thursday 14th May:

• Exploration and observations, Future missions (Cont.)
  • The Mars Climate Database (E. Millour, LMD) [video]
  • Atmospheric Science for & with InSight (A. Spiga, LMD) [video]
  • ExoMars 2016 and 2018 programme (E. Millour, LMD) [video]
  • MARBLL: Proposed LIDAR observation of the Martian PBL (F. Forget, LMD)
  • Toward Venus orbit insertion of Akatsuki (T. Imamura, JAXA) [video]
  • Venus Express (S. Lebonnois, LMD) [video]
• Gas giants, its satellites, and exoplanets modeling and observations
  • Modeling Saturn's stratosphere at high resolution (A. Spiga, LMD)
  • A GCM for the stratosphere of Jupiter being developed in the Max Planck Institute (T. Kuroda, Tohoku U.) [video]
  • Disappearance of surface banded structure produced by thermal convection in a rapidly rotating thin spherical shell (S. Takehiro, Kyoto U.) [video]
  • Numerical Simulations of Jupiter's Moist Convection Layer: Structure and Dynamics in Statistically Steady States (K. Sugiyama, JAXA) [video]
  • Discussion

Friday 15th May

• Gas giants, its satellites, and exoplanets modeling and observations (Cont.)
  • 3D Modelling of the atmosphere of Pluto and Triton (F. Forget, LMD) [video]
  • Present status of numerical experiments on climates of terrestrial exoplanets by GFD-Dennou Club dcmodel project (M. Ishiwatari, Hokkaido U.) [video]
  • The LMD "Generic" Global Climate Model: Application to exoplanets (F. Forget, LMD) [video]
  • Radiation model development and its use for exoplanets (M. Onishi, Kobe U.) [video]
  • Discussion
• Discussion on all topics
  • Future model developments
  • Future observations
• Closing remarks