Equilibrium and disequilibrium chemistry of adiabatic, solar-composition planetary atmospheresThe impact of atmospheric and cloud-structure models on the nonequilibrium chemical behavior of the atmospheres of the Jovian planets is discussed. Quantitative constraints on photochemical, lightning, and charged-particle production of organic matter and chromophores are emphasized whenever available. These considerations imply that inorganic chromophore production is far more important than that of organic chromophores, and that lightning is probably a negligibly significant process relative to photochemistry on Jupiter. Production of complex molecules by gas-phase disequilibrium processes on Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune is severely limited by condensation of even simple intermediates.
Document ID
19770043804
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other - Collected Works
Authors
Lewis, J. S. (MIT Cambridge, Mass., United States)