� 2005. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. STATISTICS OF TITAN’S SOUTH POLAR TROPOSPHERIC CLOUDS
We present the first long-term study of the behavior of the sporadically observed tropospheric clouds recently discovered near Titan’s south pole. We find that one or more small individual cloud systems is present in the 70�–80 � south region during every night of observation. These clouds account f...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.65.873 2023-05-15T18:22:17+02:00 � 2005. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. STATISTICS OF TITAN’S SOUTH POLAR TROPOSPHERIC CLOUDS Antonin H. Bouchez Michael E. Brown The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2005 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.65.873 http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/ps/antonin_clouds.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.65.873 http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/ps/antonin_clouds.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/ps/antonin_clouds.pdf text 2005 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T16:20:55Z We present the first long-term study of the behavior of the sporadically observed tropospheric clouds recently discovered near Titan’s south pole. We find that one or more small individual cloud systems is present in the 70�–80 � south region during every night of observation. These clouds account for 0.5%–1 % of Titan’s 2.0 mm flux, consistent with a global cloud cover fraction of 0.2%–0.6%. Clouds observed over multiple-night observing periods remained nearly fixed in brightness and position with respect to Titan’s surface. The continual presence of south polar clouds is consistent with the hypothesis that surface heating during the long period of continuous polar sunlight at the time of Titan’s southern summer solstice drives seasonal convection and cloud formation at the pole. Text South pole Unknown South Pole |
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We present the first long-term study of the behavior of the sporadically observed tropospheric clouds recently discovered near Titan’s south pole. We find that one or more small individual cloud systems is present in the 70�–80 � south region during every night of observation. These clouds account for 0.5%–1 % of Titan’s 2.0 mm flux, consistent with a global cloud cover fraction of 0.2%–0.6%. Clouds observed over multiple-night observing periods remained nearly fixed in brightness and position with respect to Titan’s surface. The continual presence of south polar clouds is consistent with the hypothesis that surface heating during the long period of continuous polar sunlight at the time of Titan’s southern summer solstice drives seasonal convection and cloud formation at the pole. |
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