Titan's stratospheric temperatures - A case for dynamical inertia?

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Jun 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990icar...85..346f&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 85, June 1990, p. 346-354.

Physics

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Atmospheric Temperature, Infrared Radiation, Satellite Atmospheres, Solar Radiation, Titan, Atmospheric Pressure, Iris Satellites, Temperature Distribution, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Saturn, Satellites, Titan, Stratosphere, Temperture, Inertia, Dynamics, Symmetry, Spacecraft Observations, Voyager Mission, Iris Instrument, Heating, Opacity, Seasonal Variations, Transport, Circulation, Wind, Latitude, Atmosphere, Calculations, Relaxation

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Voyager IRIS spectral radiances in the nu4-band of CH4 for the Titan atmosphere exhibit a hemispheric asymmetry. While asymmetry in the meridional distribution of opacity about the equator cannot be discounted, attention is given to the need for angular momentum transport concurrent with seasonally varying temperatures in the Titan stratosphere, which would maintain the cyclostrophic thermal wind relation between zonal winds and temperatures. The adiabatic heating and cooling associated with these motions can produce the observed temperature asymmetry.

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