Comparison of Earth-Based Longitudinal Studies and Cassini CIRS Observations of Saturn's Temperature Field: Modifications of Seasonal Forcing Models and the Discovery of Nonseasonal Low-Latitude Thermal Oscillations

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Dec 2006

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #P41C-1306

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5704 Atmospheres (0343, 1060), 5754 Polar Regions, 5794 Instruments And Techniques

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During the sequence of observations made by Cassini CIRS from 2004 to the present, supporting observations of Saturn have been made in the same spectral region. Most of these were taken at NASA's 3-m Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), but they were supplemented by observations from the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope. An examination of temperature field retrieved from form spacecraft and earth-based observations has required us to assess carefully the limitation of vertical sensitivity for the ground-based images and the calibration of both geometry and absolute radiance. Keeping those limitations in mind, the combination of the two data sets has provided evidence that is consistent with the absence of effective cloud opacity in the mid- and far-infrared. Furthermore, the full sequence of ground-based imaging stretches back as early as 1990. These observations clearly indicate the expected hemispherically antisymmetric seasonal forcing, but with relaxation times considerably shorter than the 9-year scales in both the stratosphere and upper troposphere expected from gaseous constituents alone. An important non- seasonal effect was also noted in the long-term behavior of the equator and low-latitude regions which undergo a periodic oscillation with an alternating phases of thermal waves at the equator and at latitudes 5-25 degrees poleward in both hemispheres over a period of 20 years or longer. The observed behavior is consistent with the different stratospheric temperature profiles of these regions. This phenomenon is best explained by the presence of upwelling thermal waves which are similar to the Earth's quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and Jupiter's quasi-quadrennial oscillation (QQO).

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