The sixteen papers presented at the workshop catalogued the latest results regarding the Venus atmosphere obtained from US and Soviet spacecraft and identified the major remaining problems concerning the atmosphere to give focus for future measurements and studies.
Section headings and selected papers: Preface. Ionosphere and Upper
Atmosphere. Solar cycle variations in the neutral exosphere inferred from the
location of the Venus bow shock, C T Russell et al . Venus bowshock
precursor, E G Fontheim & L H Brace; Solar-cycle changes in the thermal
structure of the Venus dayside ionosphere, A J Kliore & L F Mulle;. The red
and green lines of atomic oxygen in the nightglow of Venus, J L Fox. Infrared
Measurements of the Middle Atmosphere. High latitude phenomena, deep cloud
structure, and water vapour on Venus, F W Taylor et al . Infrared
Fourier-spectrometer experiment from Venera-15, K Schafer et al . Venus
middle-atmosphere temperatures from Venera-15, D Spankuch et al . Water vapor
and sulfur dioxide abundances at the Venus cloud tops from the Venera-15
infrared spectrometry data, V I Moroz et al . Middle and Lower Atmosphere.
Venus atmospheric circulation: known and unknown, S S Limaye. The dominant
drive for the zonal circulation on Venus may not be solar heating in the
clouds of the middle atmoshere, H E Revercomb. VEGA balloon meteorological
measurements, D Crisp et al . Author Index.
