Thermal structure and dynamics of Saturn's northern springtime disturbance
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Saturn's slow seasonal evolution was disrupted in 2010-2011 by the eruption of a bright storm in its northern spring hemisphere. Thermal infrared spectroscopy showed that within a month, the resulting planetary-scale disturbance had generated intense perturbations of atmospheric temperatures, winds, and composition between 20° and 50°N over an entire hemisphere (140,000 kilometers). The tropospheric storm cell produced effects that penetrated hundreds of kilometers into Saturn's stratosphere (to the 1-millibar region). Stratospheric subsidence at the edges of the disturbance produced "beacons" of infrared emission and longitudinal temperature contrasts of 16 kelvin. The disturbance substantially altered atmospheric circulation, transporting material vertically over great distances, modifying stratospheric zonal jets, exciting wave activity and turbulence, and generating a new cold anticyclonic oval in the center of the disturbance at 41°N.
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- Authors
- Fletcher, L. N., Hesman, B. E., Irwin, P. G. J., Baines, K. H., Momary, T. W., Sanchez-Lavega, A., Flasar, F. M., Read, P. L., Orton, G. S., Simon-Miller, A., Hueso, R., Bjoraker, G. L., Mamoutkine, A., del Rio-Gaztelurrutia, T., Gomez, J. M., Buratti, B., Clark, R. N., Nicholson, P. D., & Sotin, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Escuela Técnica Superior Ingenieros, Universidad del País Vasco, Alameda Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Fundacion Esteve Duran, Barcelona, Spain.
- United States Geological Survey (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fletcher, Leigh N.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2011-06-17
- Volume
- 332
- Issue
- 6036
- Pages
- 1413-1417
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2003937766
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 4.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/I001948/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Keywords
- Saturn, atmospheric circulation, thermal infrared emission, wave activity, turbulent flow, seasonal evolution
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