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Validation of the IPSL Venus GCM Thermal Structure with Venus Express Data

Piccioni, Giuseppe; Tellmann, Silvia; Lebonnois, Sebastien +4 more

General circulation models (GCMs) are valuable instruments to understand the most peculiar features in the atmospheres of planets and the mechanisms behind their dynamics. Venus makes no exception and it has been extensively studied thanks to GCMs. Here we validate the current version of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) Venus GCM, by means…