Characteristics of Gravity Waves Generated by Surface Topography on Venus: Comparison with the VEGA Balloon Results

Abstract

Data from the 1985 VEGA Venus Balloon Mission indicate that he mountainous region known as Aphrodite influences atmopsheric motions at baolloon float altitudes enar 54 km, an altitude located within the middle cloud region. It is shown that stationary gravity waves, generated by surface topography and Doppler-shifted by a wind blowing over the terrain, can propagate upward to the middle cloud layers...