Title
Large-scale storms in Saturn's atmosphere during 1994
Date Issued
02 February 1996
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sanchez-Lavega A.
Lecacheux J.
Gomez J.M.
Laques P.
Noll K.
Gilmore D.
Miyazaki I.
Parker D.
Bureau des Longitudes
Publisher(s)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Abstract
Large-scale storms are rarely observed in Saturn's atmosphere, but their appearance traces the wind velocity field, providing information on the vertical structure of the clouds and on the dynamics of the atmosphere. Two large-scale atmospheric disturbances formed by clouds highly reflective in the visible part of the spectrum were observed on Saturn during 1994. An equatorial disturbance with a longitudinal size of ∼27,000 kilometers drifted in longitude with a velocity of 273.6 meters per second. A second disturbance, a rapidly evolving convective storm with an initial size ∼7000 kilometers, was observed at 56 degrees south, moving with a zonal velocity of 15.5 meters per second.
Start page
631
End page
634
Volume
271
Issue
5249
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0000665957
Source
Science
ISSN of the container
00368075
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus