MWR: Microwave radiometer for the Juno mission to Jupiter

MA Janssen, JE Oswald, ST Brown, S Gulkis… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) is a six-frequency scientific instrument
designed and built to investigate the deep atmosphere of Jupiter. It is one of a suite of …

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 …

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 …

Vertical wind shear in Neptune's upper atmosphere explained with a modified thermal wind equation

J Tollefson, I de Pater, PS Marcus, S Luszcz-Cook… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
We present observations of Neptune taken in H-(1.4–1.8 µm) and K'-(2.0–2.4 µm) bands on
the nights of July 3, 2013 and August 20, 2014 from the 10-m WM Keck II Telescope using …

[HTML][HTML] The latitudinal dependence of atmospheric jet scales and macroturbulent energy cascades

R Chemke, Y Kaspi - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Latitudinal Dependence of Atmospheric Jet Scales and Macroturbulent Energy
Cascades in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 72 Issue 10 (2015) Jump to …

[HTML][HTML] Why eddy momentum fluxes are concentrated in the upper troposphere

F Ait-Chaalal, T Schneider - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Why Eddy Momentum Fluxes are Concentrated in the Upper Troposphere in: Journal of the
Atmospheric Sciences Volume 72 Issue 4 (2015) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

On the dynamical nature of Saturn's North Polar hexagon

M Rostami, V Zeitlin, A Spiga - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
An explanation of long-lived Saturn's North Polar hexagonal circumpolar jet in terms of
instability of the coupled system polar vortex-circumpolar jet is proposed in the framework of …

The turbulent dynamics of Jupiter's and Saturn's weather layers: order out of chaos?

PL Read, RMB Young, D Kennedy - Geoscience Letters, 2020 - Springer
The weather layers of the gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, comprise the shallow
atmospheric layers that are influenced energetically by a combination of incoming solar …

Global climate modeling of Saturn's atmosphere. Part III: Global statistical picture of zonostrophic turbulence in high-resolution 3D-turbulent simulations

S Cabanes, A Spiga, RMB Young - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
We conduct an in-depth analysis of statistical flow properties calculated from the reference
high-resolution Saturn simulation obtained by global climate modelling in Part II. In the …

On the spacing of meandering jets in the strong-stair limit

RK Scott, BH Burgess, DG Dritschel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Based on an assumption of strongly inhomogeneous potential vorticity mixing in quasi-
geostrophic-plane turbulence, a relation is obtained between the mean spacing of …