Surface pressure anomaly created by the thermal tide. Left panels: daily averaged spatial distribution of the departure of the surface pressure from its mean value created by the thermal tide. Right panels: spatial distribution of the semidiurnal component only. The surface pressure anomaly is computed for 300 Solar days and folded over one Solar day centred on the substellar point, whose location and direction of motion are shown with a white arrow. From top to bottom panels: normalized forcing frequency is increased from 0 (spin-orbit synchronization) to 24 (this corresponds to the length of the Solar day P_sol = 9.36 days) for the reference case of the study (a = a_Venus and p_s = 10 bar).