The penetrative observations of Jupiter’s atmosphere made by the Juno mission and the upcoming infrared observations of exoplanets by JWST call for a new era of modeling planetary atmospheres. What are the current challenges in modeling planetary atmospheres? Are current numerical tools ready to interpret both existing and future observations? What are the future objectives of and outlook for atmospheric modeling of planets both in our Solar System and beyond?

In this session, we share results of state-of-the-art modeling of planetary atmospheres from all aspects including radiative transfer, chemistry, global circulation, moist convection and clouds, boundary layer dynamics, magneto-hydrodynamics, hydrodynamic escape and the interactions among these processes. We welcome presentations on the development of modeling tools from 1D to 3D, modeling results to address current and future observational objectives and theoretical works on understanding fundamental principles of planetary atmospheres.

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