Atmospheric chemistry on Uranus and Neptune

JI Moses, T Cavalié, LN Fletcher… - … transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Comparatively little is known about atmospheric chemistry on Uranus and Neptune,
because remote spectral observations of these cold, distant 'Ice Giants' are challenging, and …

Multiple probe measurements at Uranus motivated by spatial variability

MH Wong, N Rowe-Gurney, S Markham… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
A major motivation for multiple atmospheric probe measurements at Uranus is the
understanding of dynamic processes that create and maintain spatial variation in thermal …

Long-lasting, deep effect of Saturn's giant storms

C Li, I de Pater, C Moeckel, RJ Sault, B Butler… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Planetary-scale giant storms erupt on Saturn quasiperiodically. There have been at least six
recorded occurrences of past eruptions, and the most recent one was in 2010, with its whole …

Hydrogen dimers in giant-planet infrared spectra

LN Fletcher, M Gustafsson… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite being one of the weakest dimers in nature, low-spectral-resolution Voyager/IRIS
observations revealed the presence of (H 2) 2 dimers on Jupiter and Saturn in the 1980s …

Dynamics of Saturn's great storm of 2010–2011 from Cassini ISS and RPWS

KM Sayanagi, UA Dyudina, SP Ewald, G Fischer… - Icarus, 2013 - Elsevier
Saturn's quasi-periodic planet-encircling storms are the largest convecting cumulus
outbursts in the Solar System. The last eruption was in 1990 (Sánchez-Lavega, A.[1994] …

Giant planets from the inside-out

T Guillot, LN Fletcher, R Helled, M Ikoma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Giant planets acquire gas, ices and rocks during the early formation stages of planetary
systems and thus inform us on the formation process itself. Proceeding from inside out …

A hexagon in Saturn's northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex

LN Fletcher, GS Orton, JA Sinclair, S Guerlet… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Saturn's polar stratosphere exhibits the seasonal growth and dissipation of broad, warm
vortices poleward of~ 75° latitude, which are strongest in the summer and absent in winter …

[HTML][HTML] Moist convection and the 2010–2011 revival of Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt

LN Fletcher, GS Orton, JH Rogers, RS Giles, AV Payne… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
The transformation of Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt (SEB) from its faded, whitened state in
2009-2010 (Fletcher et al., 2011b) to its normal brown appearance is documented via …

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 …

Global climate modeling of Saturn's atmosphere. Part I: Evaluation of the radiative transfer model

S Guerlet, A Spiga, M Sylvestre, M Indurain, T Fouchet… - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
We have developed and optimized a seasonal, radiative–convective model of Saturn's
upper troposphere and stratosphere. It is used to investigate Saturn's radiatively-forced …