Sentences with phrase «polar cyclones»

Early science results from NASA's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.

In the north, eight circumpolar cyclones surround a single polar cyclone.

In the case of Saturn, the planet's atmospheric conditions and storm activity are within the range that would generate a large polar cyclone.

«Only recently did Cassini give us this huge wealth of observations that made it possible, and only recently have we had to think about why [polar cyclones] occur.»

Given these two parameters, the researchers predicted that Neptune, which bears similar polar hotspots, should generate transient polar cyclones that come and go, while Jupiter should have none.

The latter marks the changeover from the cold winter polar cyclone to the warm summer polar anticyclone.

You will see polar cyclones with warm cores at the 250 hPa level if you set the display to show air temperature.

Early results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the giant planet as a complex world with Earth - sized polar cyclones, deep - diving storm systems, and a lumpy magnetic field generated deeper than once thought.

Early science results from Nasa's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.

In the south, one polar cyclone is encircled by five circumpolar cyclones.

The researchers found that whether a polar cyclone forms depends on two parameters: the energy within a planet's atmosphere, or the total intensity of its thunderstorms; and the average size of its thunderstorms, relative to the size of the planet itself.

In contrast, Jupiter is unlikely to host any polar cyclones, as the ratio of any storm to its overall size would be extremely small.

The dimensions of Neptune suggest that polar cyclones may exist there, albeit on a fleeting basis.

The team also explored conditions in which planets would not form polar cyclones, even though they may experience thunderstorms.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.

Specifically, the larger an average thunderstorm compared to a planet's size, the more likely a polar cyclone is to develop.