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Profiles of species in Venus atmosphere terminator. Data retrieved from calibrated spectra obtained with the SPICAV-SOIR instrument on board the Venus Express spacecraft. These spectra can be checked on the ESA PSA repository. See: A.C. Vandaele et al., Contribution from SOIR/VEX to the updated Venus International Reference Atmosphere (VIRA), Adv. Space Res. (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr:2015.08.012.

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These atmospheric vertical profiles of Venus are derived from VEx/SOIR spectra by the Planetary Atmospheres Research Unit of the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. They are available on open access for scientific purposes. We kindly request the authors of any communication/publication using the SOIR dataset to let us know about it (pa.vespa@aeronomie.be) and to cite the reference doi:10.1016/j.asr.2015.08.012.

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