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 …

[图书][B] Atmospheric evolution on inhabited and lifeless worlds

DC Catling, JF Kasting - 2017 - books.google.com
As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need
comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well …

[图书][B] Zonal jets: Phenomenology, genesis, and physics

B Galperin, PL Read - 2019 - books.google.com
In recent decades, great progress has been made in our understanding of zonal jets across
many subjects-atmospheric science, oceanography, planetary science, geophysical fluid …

Titan global climate model: A new 3-dimensional version of the IPSL Titan GCM

S Lebonnois, J Burgalat, P Rannou, B Charnay - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
We have developed a new 3-dimensional climate model for Titan's atmosphere, using the
physics of the IPSL Titan 2-dimensional climate model with the current version of the LMDZ …

Analysis of Cassini/CIRS limb spectra of Titan acquired during the nominal mission: I. Hydrocarbons, nitriles and CO2 vertical mixing ratio profiles

S Vinatier, B Bézard, CA Nixon, A Mamoutkine… - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
Observations of the Composite InfraRed Spectrometer (CIRS) during the entire nominal
Cassini mission (2004–2008) provide us with an accurate global view of composition and …

GCM simulations of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere and comparison to observations

JM Lora, JI Lunine, JL Russell - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
Simulation results are presented from a new general circulation model (GCM) of Titan, the
Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM), which couples the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) spectral …

Titan trace gaseous composition from CIRS at the end of the Cassini–Huygens prime mission

A Coustenis, DE Jennings, CA Nixon, RK Achterberg… - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper reports on the results from an extensive study of all nadir-looking spectra
acquired by Cassini/CIRS during the 44 flybys performed in the course of the nominal …

Seasonal variations in Titan's middle atmosphere during the northern spring derived from Cassini/CIRS observations

S Vinatier, B Bézard, S Lebonnois, NA Teanby… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
We analyzed spectra acquired at the limb of Titan in the 2006–2013 period by the
Cassini/Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) in order to monitor the seasonal evolution …

Two-dimensional radiative transfer for the retrieval of limb emission measurements in the Martian atmosphere

A Kleinböhl, AJ Friedson, JT Schofield - Journal of Quantitative …, 2017 - Elsevier
The remote sounding of infrared emission from planetary atmospheres using limb-viewing
geometry is a powerful technique for deriving vertical profiles of structure and composition …