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Nonuniform Water Distribution in Jupiter's Mid Latitudes: Influence of Precipitation and Planetary Rotation
Huazhi Ge, Cheng Li, Xi Zhang +2
Knowing the composition of Jupiter's atmosphere is crucial for constraining Jupiter's bulk metallicity and formation history. Yet, constraining Jupiter's atmospheric water abundanc…
ExoCubed: A Riemann-Solver based Cubed-Sphere Dynamic Core for Planetary Atmospheres
Sihe Chen, Cheng Li
The computational fluid dynamics on a sphere is relevant to global simulations of geophysical fluid dynamics. Using the conventional spherical-polar (or lat-lon) grid results in a…
Jupiter's Polar Vortex Crystals Explored using the Shallow Water Equations
Sihe Chen, Andrew P. Ingersoll, Cheng Li
At the poles of Jupiter, cyclonic vortices are clustered together in patterns made up of equilateral triangles called vortex crystals. Such patterns are seen in laboratory flows bu…
Deciphering Pluto's Haze: How a Solar-Powered Vapor-Pressure Plume Shapes Its Bimodal Particle Size Distribution
Sihe Chen, Danica Adams, Siteng Fan +3
Combining findings from New Horizons' suite of instruments reveals a bimodal haze particle distribution within Pluto's atmosphere, which haze models have not been able to reproduce…