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 …

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 …

PlanetWRF: A general purpose, local to global numerical model for planetary atmospheric and climate dynamics

MI Richardson, AD Toigo… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A new planetary atmospheric numerical model,“planetWRF,” has been developed by
modifying the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The model has generalized …

Dunes on Titan observed by Cassini RADAR

J Radebaugh, RD Lorenz, JI Lunine, SD Wall… - Icarus, 2008 - Elsevier
Thousands of longitudinal dunes have recently been discovered by the Titan Radar Mapper
on the surface of Titan. These are found mainly within±30° of the equator in optically-, near …

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 …

[BOOK][B] Dune worlds: How windblown sand shapes planetary landscapes

RD Lorenz, JR Zimbelman - 2014 - Springer
This book describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different
settings, and how they are being studied. Particular attention is paid to their formation and …

Titan's middle-atmospheric temperatures and dynamics observed by the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer

RK Achterberg, BJ Conrath, PJ Gierasch, FM Flasar… - Icarus, 2008 - Elsevier
The Composite Infrared Radiometer–Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument, on the NASA Cassini
Saturn orbiter, has been acquiring thermal emission spectra from the atmosphere of Titan …

Atomic clocks and oscillators for deep-space navigation and radio science

JD Prestage, GL Weaver - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes new oscillator and atomic clock technologies that, when combined,
create a master oscillator for use in deep-space navigation and science measurements. This …

Stratospheric superrotation in the TitanWRF model

CE Newman, C Lee, Y Lian, MI Richardson, AD Toigo - Icarus, 2011 - Elsevier
TitanWRF general circulation model simulations performed without sub-grid-scale horizontal
diffusion of momentum produce roughly the observed amount of superrotation in Titan's …

Analytic theory of Titan's Schumann resonance: Constraints on ionospheric conductivity and buried water ocean

C Béghin, O Randriamboarison, M Hamelin… - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
This study presents an approximate model for the atypical Schumann resonance in Titan's
atmosphere that accounts for the observations of electromagnetic waves and the …