Figure 2: Spectrally resolved heating and cooling rates and corresponding energy fluxes and opacity.
From: Aerosol influence on energy balance of the middle atmosphere of Jupiter
(a) Globally averaged solar radiation received by Jupiter, approximated by a blackbody of 5,778 K (red) and Jupiter thermal radiation in the stratosphere approximated by a blackbody of 150 K (blue). (b) Total optical depth from the top of the atmosphere to 100 hPa as a function of wavelength at 60° S. The gas optical depth (grey) includes H2–H2 and H2–He CIA and CH4, C2H2 and C2H6 absorption. The non-gas components include Rayleigh scattering (blue), fractal aggregate aerosol extinction (red) and the aerosol absorption (orange). (c) Spectrally resolved zonally averaged solar heating (0.2–5 μm) and cooling (5–100 μm) map at 60° S. Absolute values of the heating/cooling rates that are <10−6 K per day per μm are not shown. Solar heating dominates shortwards of 5 μm while Jupiter thermal cooling (shown in negative values here) dominates longwards of 5 μm. Contributions from the H2–H2 and H2–He CIA and gas vibrational–rotational bands are shown. Aerosol heating is important in the ultraviolet and visible regions and aerosol cooling is important in the mid-infrared region beyond 11 μm.
