Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets : June 25-28, 2012, Boulder, Colorado

The purpose of the conference was to identify and explore physical and chemical climate processes that are shared among rocky planets with atmospheres, in order to advance scientific progress through detailed comparisons. To this end, invited speakers and poster contributors were asked to present results on investigations that rely on comparisons between Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and terrestrial planets around other stars.sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration [and others]conveners Mark A. Bullock [and others]PARTIAL CONTENTS: Volcanism as an Active Planetary Process on Venus--Vertical Wavenumber Spectra of Gravity Waves in the Martian Atmosphere Obtained from the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Occultation Data--A Conceptual Model of Equatorial Ice Sheets on Mars--Planetary Engineering of Venus for Earth--Solar Influences on the Structure and Dynamics of the Venus, Earth, and Mars Upper Atmospheres: Implications for Neutral Atmospheric Loss Processes--Planetary Magnetic Fields and Climate Evolution--Upper Atmosphere Thermal Structure in Slow Rotator Atmospheres: Venus vs. Titan