Dynamics and clouds in planetary atmospheres from telescopic observations

A Sánchez-Lavega, P Irwin, A García Muñoz - The Astronomy and …, 2023 - Springer
This review presents an insight into our current knowledge of the atmospheres of the planets
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the satellite Titan, and those of …

Cassini exploration of the planet Saturn: A comprehensive review

AP Ingersoll - Space science reviews, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Before Cassini, scientists viewed Saturn's unique features only from Earth and from
three spacecraft flying by. During more than a decade orbiting the gas giant, Cassini studied …

Saturn's atmosphere in northern summer revealed by JWST/MIRI

LN Fletcher, ORT King, J Harkett… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Saturn's northern summertime hemisphere was mapped by JWST/Mid‐Infrared Instrument
(4.9–27.9 µm) in November 2022, tracing the seasonal evolution of temperatures, aerosols …

Global climate modeling of Saturn's atmosphere. Part II: Multi-annual high-resolution dynamical simulations

A Spiga, S Guerlet, E Millour, M Indurain, Y Meurdesoif… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
The Cassini mission unveiled the intense and diverse activity in Saturn's atmosphere:
banded jets, waves, vortices, equatorial oscillations. To set the path towards a better …

Evolution of the horizontal winds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot from one Jovian year of HST/WFC3 maps

MH Wong, PS Marcus, AA Simon… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We measured the horizontal winds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) using data from the
WFC3/UVIS instrument on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The data cover 11 …

[HTML][HTML] Giant planet atmospheres: dynamics and variability from UV to near-IR Hubble and adaptive optics imaging

AA Simon, MH Wong, LA Sromovsky, LN Fletcher… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Each of the giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, has been observed by at
least one robotic spacecraft mission. However, these missions are infrequent; Uranus and …

Observations and numerical modelling of a convective disturbance in a large-scale cyclone in Jupiter's South Temperate Belt

P Iñurrigarro, R Hueso, J Legarreta, A Sánchez-Lavega… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Moist convective storms in Jupiter develop frequently and can trigger atmospheric activity of
different scales, from localized storms to planetary-scale disturbances including convective …

[HTML][HTML] Global climate modelling of Saturn's atmosphere, Part V: Large-scale vortices

PT Donnelly, A Spiga, S Guerlet, MK James, D Bardet - Icarus, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper presents an analysis of large-scale vortices in the atmospheres of gas giants,
focusing on a detailed study conducted using the Saturn-DYNAMICO global climate model …

A complex storm system in Saturn's north polar atmosphere in 2018

A Sánchez-Lavega, E García-Melendo, J Legarreta… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Saturn's convective storms usually fall in two categories. One consists of mid-sized storms∼
2,000 km wide, appearing as irregular bright cloud systems that evolve rapidly, on scales of …

Saturn atmospheric dynamics one year after Cassini: Long-lived features and time variations in the drift of the Hexagon

R Hueso, A Sánchez-Lavega, JF Rojas, AA Simon… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
We examine Saturn's atmospheric dynamics with observations in the visible range from
ground-based telescopes and Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We present a detailed …