Titan's atmosphere and climate

SM Hörst - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, the only other thick N2 atmosphere
besides Earth's, the site of extraordinarily complex atmospheric chemistry that far surpasses …

The climate of Titan

JL Mitchell, JM Lora - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, the Cassini-Huygens mission to the Saturn system has revolutionized
our understanding of Titan and its climate. Veiled in a thick organic haze, Titan's visible …

Comparison of “warm and wet” and “cold and icy” scenarios for early Mars in a 3‐D climate model

RD Wordsworth, L Kerber… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We use a 3‐D general circulation model to compare the primitive Martian hydrological cycle
in “warm and wet” and “cold and icy” scenarios. In the warm and wet scenario, an …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics of idealized convection schemes and their effect on the zonally averaged tropical circulation

DMW Frierson - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this paper, the effect of a simple convection scheme on the zonally averaged tropical
general circulation is examined within an idealized moist GCM to obtain broad …

Titan's inventory of organic surface materials

RD Lorenz, KL Mitchell, RL Kirk… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Cassini RADAR observations now permit an initial assessment of the inventory of two
classes, presumed to be organic, of Titan surface materials: polar lake liquids and equatorial …

Atmospheric dynamics of terrestrial exoplanets over a wide range of orbital and atmospheric parameters

Y Kaspi, AP Showman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent discoveries of terrestrial exoplanets and super-Earths extending over a broad
range of orbital and physical parameters suggest that these planets will span a wide range …

Titan global climate model: A new 3-dimensional version of the IPSL Titan GCM

S Lebonnois, J Burgalat, P Rannou, B Charnay - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
We have developed a new 3-dimensional climate model for Titan's atmosphere, using the
physics of the IPSL Titan 2-dimensional climate model with the current version of the LMDZ …

Cassini imaging of Titan's high‐latitude lakes, clouds, and south‐polar surface changes

EP Turtle, JE Perry, AS McEwen… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) has been observing Titan since April 2004,
compiling a nearly global surface map and monitoring the surface and atmosphere for …

Three-dimensional atmospheric circulation of warm and hot Jupiters: Effects of orbital distance, rotation period, and nonsynchronous rotation

AP Showman, NK Lewis, JJ Fortney - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Efforts to characterize extrasolar giant planet (EGP) atmospheres have so far emphasized
planets within 0.05 AU of their stars. Despite this focus, known EGPs populate a continuum …

GCM simulations of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere and comparison to observations

JM Lora, JI Lunine, JL Russell - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …