Dependence of Temperature Conditions of Planetary Atmospheres in the Solar System on the Length of the Annual Cycle

Abstract

The results of a comparative analysis of various characteristics of the temperature conditions of the planetary atmospheres in the Solar System and their dependence on orbital parameters, in particular on the length and angular frequency of the annual cycle, are presented. A root dependence on the angular frequency of the dry adiabatic lapse rate is noted. The dependence of the planetary equilibrium temperature in the form of the cubic root of the angular frequency of the annual cycle is related to Kepler’s third law. For Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, the root dependence of the scale height and the troposphere height on the annual cycle length is manifested, and the atmospheric features of the most distant planets from the Sun—Uranus and Neptune—are noted.