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Spontaneous formation of geysers at only one pole on Enceladus' ice shell
Wanying Kang, Glenn Flierl
The ice shell on Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, exhibits strong asymmetry between the northern and southern hemispheres, with all known geysers concentrated over the south pole,…
Collapse of the general circulation in shortwave-absorbing atmospheres: an idealized model study
Wanying Kang, Robin Wordsworth
The response of the general circulation in a dry atmosphere to various atmospheric shortwave absorptivities is investigated in a three-dimensional general circulation model with gr…
Regime transition between eddy-driven and moist-driven circulation on High Obliquity Planets
Wanying Kang
We investigate how the meridional circulation and baroclinic eddies change with insolation and rotation rate, under high and zero obliquity setups, using a general circulation mode…
Wetter Stratospheres on High Obliquity Planets
Wanying Kang
We investigate how obliquity affects stratospheric humidity using a 3D general circulation model and find the stratosphere under high obliquity could be over 3 orders of magnitude…
Mechanisms leading to a warmer climate on high obliquity planets
Wanying Kang
A consistent finding of high obliquity simulations is that they are warmer than their low obliquity counterparts when the climate is cold. Ice-albedo feedback has been suggested as…
Tropical and Extratropical General Circulation with a Meridional Reversed Temperature Gradient as Expected in a High Obliquity Planet
Wanying Kang, Ming Cai, Eli Tziperman
Planets with high obliquity receive more radiation in the polar regions than at low latitudes, and thus, assuming an ocean-covered surface with sufficiently high heat capacity, the…