Cassini exploration of the planet Saturn: A comprehensive review

AP Ingersoll - Space science reviews, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Before Cassini, scientists viewed Saturn's unique features only from Earth and from
three spacecraft flying by. During more than a decade orbiting the gas giant, Cassini studied …

[HTML][HTML] Moist convection in the giant planet atmospheres

C Palotai, S Brueshaber, R Sankar, K Sayanagi - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The outer planets of our Solar System display a myriad of interesting cloud features, of
different colors and sizes. The differences between the types of observed clouds suggest a …

Anisotropic turbulence and zonal jets in rotating flows with a β-effect

B Galperin, S Sukoriansky, N Dikovskaya… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2006 - npg.copernicus.org
Numerical studies of small-scale forced, two-dimensional turbulent flows on the surface of a
rotating sphere have revealed strong large-scale anisotropization that culminates in the …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulations of forced shallow-water turbulence: Effects of moist convection on the large-scale circulation of Jupiter and Saturn

AP Showman - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Numerical Simulations of Forced Shallow-Water Turbulence: Effects of Moist Convection on
the Large-Scale Circulation of Jupiter and Saturn in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences …

Generation of equatorial jets by large-scale latent heating on the giant planets

Y Lian, AP Showman - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional numerical simulations show that large-scale latent heating resulting from
condensation of water vapor can produce multiple zonal jets similar to those on the gas …

[HTML][HTML] Cassini observations reveal a regime of zonostrophic macroturbulence on Jupiter

B Galperin, RMB Young, S Sukoriansky, N Dikovskaya… - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract In December 2000, the Cassini fly-by near Jupiter delivered high-resolution images
of Jupiter's clouds over the entire planet in a band between 50° N and 50° S. Three daily …

Global climate modeling of Saturn's atmosphere. Part II: Multi-annual high-resolution dynamical simulations

A Spiga, S Guerlet, E Millour, M Indurain, Y Meurdesoif… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
The Cassini mission unveiled the intense and diverse activity in Saturn's atmosphere:
banded jets, waves, vortices, equatorial oscillations. To set the path towards a better …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating Jupiter's weather layer. Part I: Jet spin-up in a dry atmosphere

RMB Young, PL Read, Y Wang - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate the dynamics of Jupiter's upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using a
General Circulation Model that includes two-stream radiation and optional heating from …

Implications of the ammonia distribution on Jupiter from 1 to 100 bars as measured by the Juno microwave radiometer

AP Ingersoll, V Adumitroaie, MD Allison… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The latitude‐altitude map of ammonia mixing ratio shows an ammonia‐rich zone at 0–5° N,
with mixing ratios of 320–340 ppm, extending from 40–60 bars up to the ammonia cloud …

Hierarchical modeling of solar system planets with Isca

SI Thomson, GK Vallis - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
We describe the use of Isca for the hierarchical modeling of Solar System planets, with
particular attention paid to Earth, Mars, and Jupiter. Isca is a modeling framework for the …