When discussing research in physics and in science more generally, it is common to ascribe
equal importance to the three components of the scientific trinity: theoretical, experimental …

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 …

Strong rivers of westerly winds, known as jet streams, are driven primarily by temperature
differences between low and high latitudes as well as the rotation of the Earth. The jet …

Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection is a simple model system used to study the interplay
of buoyant forcing and rotation. Many recent studies have focused on the geostrophic …

This article is devoted to stationary solutions of Euler's equation on a rotating sphere, and to
their relevance to the dynamics of stratospheric flows in the atmosphere of the outer planets …

In this study, we examine the role of curvature in modifying frontal stability. We first evaluate
the classical criterion that the Coriolis parameter f multiplied by the Ertel potential vorticity …

We investigate modons on tidally synchronized extrasolar planet atmospheres. Modons are
dynamic, coherent flow structures composed of a pair of storms with opposite signs of …

Observations of time-varying thermal emission from brown dwarfs suggest that they have
large-scale atmospheric circulation. The magnitude of this variability ranges from a few per …

The waveguidability of an upper-tropospheric zonal jet quantifies its propensity to duct
Rossby waves in the zonal direction. This property has played a central role in previous …

Intense east–west winds called zonal jets are observed in the atmospheres of Jupiter and
Saturn and extend in their deep interior. We present experimental results from a fully three …