DTU Space (the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark) invites applications for a 3-year postdoctoral research position in planetary climates to work with Senior Researcher Dr. João Mendonça. The successful applicant is expected to have experience in planetary modelling, including atmospheric or interior modelling, and will join the Exoplanet Group at DTU. Responsibilities and qualifications The […]
Link for the official announcement of the award from the Danish Government: [Link] EnVision is an ESA Science mission to Venus that will explore the deep extreme conditions of the Venus environment. It will be an essential mission to understand the interplay between the planet’s volcanic activity and the planet’s climate. The mission also seeks to […]
We have just been awarded PRODEX funding to explore the science goals of the EnVision mission with the OASIS software. EnVision is a mission to Venus and one of the recently selected ESA M5 missions in Phase A. The Envision mission will explore the deep extreme conditions of the Venus environment. It will be an […]
OASIS is progressing fast towards an ultimate platform to simulate planetary environments. OASIS is a novel and flexible 3D virtual planet laboratory, which couples self-consistently seven individual modules representing the main physical and chemical processes that shape planetary environments. We produced 3D simulations of the Venus climate and its atmospheric circulation and study how the modeled […]
My group has acquired 8 of the fastest GPU cards in the market: NVIDIA V100 32GB cards. This was thanks to being awarded 0.5 million Danish kroner from the Strategic Funds 2018 by the National Space Institute (Denmark). We are now able to run complete Earth climate benchmark tests in less than 5 minutes in […]
The different gas components in the atmosphere of exoplanets are exposed to different temperatures and pressure conditions that shape the spectral information captured by the telescopes. The development of robust theoretical tools to help unveiling the atmospheric composition of exoplanets will play an important role in the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and in the interpretation […]
Summary In a recent publication, THOR helped unveiling the “dark-side” of WASP-43b ([view paper]). Running 3D simulations of cloudy atmospheres, THOR produced multi-phase emission spectra that constrain a cloud deck to be confined to the nightside of the planet and have a finite cloud-top pressure. The produced spectra also suggests the possibility of enhanced carbon dioxide in the atmosphere […]
THOR is now open-source on this link. THOR is a flexible Global Circulation Model (GCM) that solves the three-dimensional non-hydrostatic Euler equations on an icosahedral grid, and was designed to run on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). THOR was developed from ground-up with the propose of exploring a large diversity of planets and avoiding physical approximations brought from other research fields. This model has […]