The Dynamics of Jupiter's and Saturn's Weather Layers: A Synthesis After Cassini and Juno

PL Read - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Until recently, observations of the giant planets of our Solar System were confined to
sampling relatively shallow regions of their atmospheres, leaving many uncertainties as to …

Fluid dynamics of polar vortices on Earth, Mars, and Titan

DW Waugh - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Polar vortices that share many similarities are found in Earth's stratosphere and the
atmospheres of Mars and Saturn's moon Titan. These vortices all occur in the winter, and are …

Polar vortex crystals: Emergence and structure

L Siegelman, WR Young… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Vortex crystals are quasiregular arrays of like-signed vortices in solid-body rotation
embedded within a uniform background of weaker vorticity. Vortex crystals are observed at …

The number and location of Jupiter's circumpolar cyclones explained by vorticity dynamics

N Gavriel, Y Kaspi - Nature geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
The Juno mission observed that both poles of Jupiter have polar cyclones that are
surrounded by a ring of circumpolar cyclones (CPCs). The north pole holds eight CPCs and …

Modeling the stability of polygonal patterns of vortices at the poles of Jupiter as revealed by the Juno spacecraft

C Li, AP Ingersoll, AP Klipfel… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
From its pole-to-pole orbit, the Juno spacecraft discovered arrays of cyclonic vortices in
polygonal patterns around the poles of Jupiter. In the north, there are eight vortices around a …

Vorticity and divergence at scales down to 200 km within and around the polar cyclones of Jupiter

AP Ingersoll, SP Ewald, F Tosi, A Adriani, A Mura… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Since 2017 the Juno spacecraft has observed a cyclone at the north pole of Jupiter
surrounded by eight smaller cyclones arranged in a polygonal pattern. It is not clear why this …

Jupiter's equatorial plumes and hot spots: Spectral mapping from Gemini/TEXES and Juno/MWR

LN Fletcher, GS Orton, TK Greathouse… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present multiwavelength measurements of the thermal, chemical, and cloud contrasts
associated with the visibly dark formations (also known as 5‐μm hot spots) and intervening …

Oscillations and stability of the Jupiter polar cyclones

A Mura, A Adriani, A Bracco… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Juno discovered the circumpolar cyclones polygons on Jupiter in 2017. Fundamental
questions regarding Jovian cyclogenesis concern the formation mechanism and whether …

Deep, closely packed, long-lived cyclones on Jupiter's poles

T Cai, KL Chan, HG Mayr - The Planetary Science Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Juno mission to Jupiter has found closely packed cyclones at the planet's two
poles. The observation that these cyclones coexist in very confined space, with outer rims …

The Westward Drift of Jupiter's Polar Cyclones Explained by a Center‐of‐Mass Approach

N Gavriel, Y Kaspi - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first orbits around Jupiter of the Juno spacecraft in 2016 revealed a symmetric structure
of multiple cyclones that remained stable over the next 5 years. Trajectories of individual …