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Interpreting seasonal and interannual Hadley cell descending edge migrations via the cell-mean Rossby number
Spencer A Hill, Simona Bordoni, Jonathan L Mitchell +1
The poleward extent of Earth's zonal-mean Hadley cells varies across seasons and years, which would be nice to capture in a simple theory. A plausible, albeit diagnostic, candidate…
Clouds and Seasonality on Terrestrial Planets with Varying Rotation Rates
Daniel A. Williams, Xuan Ji, Paul Corlies +1
Using an idealised climate model incorporating seasonal forcing, we investigate the impact of rotation rate on the abundance of clouds on an Earth-like aquaplanet, and the resultin…
Equatorial Waves and Superrotation in the Stratosphere of a Titan General Circulation Model
Neil T. Lewis, Nicholas A. Lombardo, Peter L. Read +1
We investigate the characteristics of equatorial waves associated with the maintenance of superrotation in the stratosphere of a Titan general circulation model. A variety of equat…
Science goals and new mission concepts for future exploration of Titan's atmosphere geology and habitability: Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander and DrONe explorer (POSEIDON)
Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier, Daniel Cordier +61
In response to ESA Voyage 2050 announcement of opportunity, we propose an ambitious L-class mission to explore one of the most exciting bodies in the Solar System, Saturn largest m…
Annular Modes of Variability in the Atmospheres of Mars and Titan
J. Michael Battalio, Juan M. Lora
Annular modes explain much of the internal variability of Earth's atmosphere but have never been identified on other planets. Using reanalyses for Mars and a simulation for Titan,…
Titan: Earth-like on the Outside, Ocean World on the Inside
Shannon M. MacKenzie, Samuel P. D. Birch, Sarah Horst +30
Thanks to the Cassini-Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and Voyager encounters has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically-shaped, organic-rich ocean wor…
The Science Case for a Titan Flagship-class Orbiter with Probes
Conor A. Nixon, James Abshire, Andrew Ashton +36
We outline a flagship-class mission concept focused on studying Titan as a global system, with particular emphasis on the polar regions. Investigating Titan from the unique standpo…
Atmospheric circulation, chemistry, and infrared spectra of Titan-like exoplanets around different stellar types
Juan M. Lora, Tiffany Kataria, Peter Gao
With the discovery of ever smaller and colder exoplanets, terrestrial worlds with hazy atmospheres must be increasingly considered. Our Solar System's Titan is a prototypical hazy…
The near-surface methane humidity on Titan
Juan M. Lora, Mate Adamkovics
We retrieve vertical and meridional variations of methane mole fraction in Titan's lower troposphere by re-analyzing near-infrared ground-based observations from 17 July 2014 UT (A…
Simulations of Titan's paleoclimate
Juan M. Lora, Jonathan I. Lunine, Joellen L. Russell +1
We investigate the effects of varying Saturn's orbit on the atmospheric circulation and surface methane distribution of Titan. Using a new general circulation model of Titan's atmo…
GCM simulations of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere and comparison to observations
Juan M. Lora, Jonathan I. Lunine, Joellen L. Russell
Simulation results are presented from a new general circulation model (GCM) of Titan, the Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM), which couples the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) spectral d…