A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex
International audience Saturn's polar stratosphere exhibits the seasonal growth and dissipation of broad, warm vortices poleward of~75°latitude, which are strongest in the summer and absent in winter. The longevity of the exploration of the Saturn system by Cassini allows the use of infrared sp...
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ftsorbonneuniv:oai:HAL:hal-02392309v1 2024-09-15T18:36:47+00:00 A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex Fletcher, L. Orton, G. Sinclair, J. Guerlet, S. Read, P. Antuñano, A. Achterberg, R. Flasar, F. Irwin, P. Bjoraker, G. Hurley, J. Hesman, B. Segura, M. Gorius, N. Mamoutkine, A. Calcutt, S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Lanham (SSAI) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Oxford (AOPP) University of Oxford 2018-12 https://hal.science/hal-02392309 https://hal.science/hal-02392309/document https://hal.science/hal-02392309/file/s41467-018-06017-3.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06017-3 en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-018-06017-3 hal-02392309 https://hal.science/hal-02392309 https://hal.science/hal-02392309/document https://hal.science/hal-02392309/file/s41467-018-06017-3.pdf doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06017-3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2041-1723 EISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications https://hal.science/hal-02392309 Nature Communications, 2018, 9 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41467-018-06017-3⟩ [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftsorbonneuniv https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06017-3 2024-08-01T23:46:52Z International audience Saturn's polar stratosphere exhibits the seasonal growth and dissipation of broad, warm vortices poleward of~75°latitude, which are strongest in the summer and absent in winter. The longevity of the exploration of the Saturn system by Cassini allows the use of infrared spectroscopy to trace the formation of the North Polar Stratospheric Vortex (NPSV), a region of enhanced temperatures and elevated hydrocarbon abundances at millibar pressures. We constrain the timescales of stratospheric vortex formation and dissipation in both hemispheres. Although the NPSV formed during late northern spring, by the end of Cassini's reconnaissance (shortly after northern summer solstice), it still did not display the contrasts in temperature and composition that were evident at the south pole during southern summer. The newly formed NPSV was bounded by a strengthening stratospheric thermal gradient near 78°N. The emergent boundary was hexagonal, suggesting that the Rossby wave responsible for Saturn's long-lived polar hexagon-which was previously expected to be trapped in the troposphere-can influence the stratospheric temperatures some 300 km above Saturn's clouds. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole HAL Sorbonne Université Nature Communications 9 1 |
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International audience Saturn's polar stratosphere exhibits the seasonal growth and dissipation of broad, warm vortices poleward of~75°latitude, which are strongest in the summer and absent in winter. The longevity of the exploration of the Saturn system by Cassini allows the use of infrared spectroscopy to trace the formation of the North Polar Stratospheric Vortex (NPSV), a region of enhanced temperatures and elevated hydrocarbon abundances at millibar pressures. We constrain the timescales of stratospheric vortex formation and dissipation in both hemispheres. Although the NPSV formed during late northern spring, by the end of Cassini's reconnaissance (shortly after northern summer solstice), it still did not display the contrasts in temperature and composition that were evident at the south pole during southern summer. The newly formed NPSV was bounded by a strengthening stratospheric thermal gradient near 78°N. The emergent boundary was hexagonal, suggesting that the Rossby wave responsible for Saturn's long-lived polar hexagon-which was previously expected to be trapped in the troposphere-can influence the stratospheric temperatures some 300 km above Saturn's clouds. |
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Lanham (SSAI) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Oxford (AOPP) University of Oxford |
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Fletcher, L. Orton, G. Sinclair, J. Guerlet, S. Read, P. Antuñano, A. Achterberg, R. Flasar, F. Irwin, P. Bjoraker, G. Hurley, J. Hesman, B. Segura, M. Gorius, N. Mamoutkine, A. Calcutt, S. |
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A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex |
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A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex |
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A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex |
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A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex |
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A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex |
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