Titan's atmosphere and climate

SM Hörst - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, the only other thick N2 atmosphere
besides Earth's, the site of extraordinarily complex atmospheric chemistry that far surpasses …

Superrotation on Venus, on Titan, and elsewhere

PL Read, S Lebonnois - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The superrotation of the atmospheres of Venus and Titan has puzzled dynamicists for many
years and seems to put these planets in a very different dynamical regime from most other …

Science goals and objectives for the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft relocatable lander

JW Barnes, EP Turtle, MG Trainer… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-
2030s. Dragonfly's science themes include investigation of Titan's prebiotic chemistry …

Update of the HITRAN collision-induced absorption section

T Karman, IE Gordon, A van Der Avoird, YI Baranov… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
Correct parameterization of the Collision-induced Absorption (CIA) phenomena is essential
for accurate modeling of planetary atmospheres. The HITRAN spectroscopic database …

Bistability of the atmospheric circulation on TRAPPIST-1e

DE Sergeev, NT Lewis, FH Lambert… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a 3D general circulation model, we demonstrate that a confirmed rocky exoplanet and
a primary observational target, TRAPPIST-1e presents an interesting case of climate …

A post-Cassini view of Titan's methane-based hydrologic cycle

AG Hayes, RD Lorenz, JI Lunine - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
The methane-based hydrologic cycle on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an extreme
analogue to Earth's water cycle. Titan is the only planetary body in the Solar System, other …

Titan's topography and shape at the end of the Cassini mission

P Corlies, AG Hayes, SPD Birch… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With the conclusion of the Cassini mission, we present an updated topographic map of Titan,
including all the available altimetry, SARtopo, and stereophotogrammetry topographic data …

The climate of Titan

JL Mitchell, JM Lora - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, the Cassini-Huygens mission to the Saturn system has revolutionized
our understanding of Titan and its climate. Veiled in a thick organic haze, Titan's visible …

Titan's meteorology over the Cassini mission: Evidence for extensive subsurface methane reservoirs

EP Turtle, JE Perry, JM Barbara… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cassini observations of Titan's weather patterns over> 13 years, almost half a Saturnian
year, provide insight into seasonal circulation patterns and the methane cycle. The Imaging …

Superrotation in planetary atmospheres

T Imamura, J Mitchell, S Lebonnois, Y Kaspi… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Superrotation is a dynamical regime where the atmosphere circulates around the planet in
the direction of planetary rotation with excess angular momentum in the equatorial region …