{"id":236793,"date":"2022-12-29T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236793"},"modified":"2022-12-29T20:32:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:32:13","slug":"40-year-study-finds-mysterious-patterns-in-temperatures-at-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236793","title":{"rendered":"40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 29, 2022 by\u00a0oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jupiter [image credit: NASA]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unexpected patterns and teleconnections. Some new light is shed on the workings of the solar system\u2019s largest planetary atmosphere.<\/em>
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Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiter\u2019s upper troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where the giant planet\u2019s weather occurs and where its signature colorful striped clouds form, says Subaru Telescope<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work, conducted over four decades by stitching together data from NASA spacecraft and ground-based telescope observations, found unexpected patterns in how temperatures of Jupiter\u2019s belts and zones change over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study is a major step toward a better understanding of what drives weather at our solar system\u2019s largest planet and eventually being able to forecast it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jupiter\u2019s troposphere has a lot in common with Earth\u2019s: It\u2019s where clouds form and storms churn. To understand this weather activity, scientists need to study certain properties, including wind, pressure, humidity, and temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have known since NASA\u2019s Pioneer 10 and 11 missions in the 1970s that, in general, colder temperatures are associated with Jupiter\u2019s lighter and whiter bands (known as zones), while the darker brown-red bands (known as belts) are locations of warmer temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there weren\u2019t enough data sets to understand how temperatures vary over the long-term. An international research team of planetary scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, University of Leicester (UK), and other institutes broke new ground by studying images of the bright infrared glow (invisible to the human eye) that rises from warmer regions of the atmosphere (upper troposphere), directly measuring Jupiter\u2019s temperatures above the colorful clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientists collected these images at regular intervals over three of Jupiter\u2019s orbits around the Sun, each of which lasts 12 Earth years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the process, they found that Jupiter\u2019s temperatures rise and fall following definite periods that aren\u2019t tied to the seasons or any other cycles scientists know about. Because Jupiter has weak seasons \u2013 the planet is tilted on its axis only 3 degrees, compared to Earth\u2019s jaunty 23.5 degrees \u2013 scientists didn\u2019t expect to find temperatures on Jupiter varying in such regular cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study also revealed a mysterious connection between temperature shifts in regions thousands of miles apart: As temperatures went up at specific latitudes in the northern hemisphere, they went down at the same latitudes in the southern hemisphere \u2013 like a mirror image across the equator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was the most surprising of all,\u201d says Glenn Orton, senior research scientist at JPL and lead author of the study. \u201cWe found a connection between how the temperatures varied at very distant latitudes. It\u2019s similar to a phenomenon we see on Earth, where weather and climate patterns in one region can have a noticeable influence on weather elsewhere, with the patterns of variability seemingly \u2018teleconnected\u2019 across vast distances through the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next challenge is to find out what causes these cyclical and seemingly synchronized changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1: (Left) Color composite images of Jupiter in the wavelengths of 8.6 and 10.7 microns, obtained by the VLT in February, and March 2016, respectively. The colors represent the temperatures and cloudiness: The darker areas are cold and cloudy, and the brighter areas are warmer and cloud-free. (Right) Jupiter at a wavelength of 18 microns obtained in May 2019 with COMICS on the Subaru Telescope. (Credit: ESO \/ L.N. Fletcher, NAOJ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Nature Astronomy article:\u00a0Unexpected long-term variability in Jupiter\u2019s tropospheric temperatures<\/a>\u00a0(2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the abstract:
\u2018Here we derive upper-tropospheric (330-mbar) temperatures over 40\u2009years, covering several orbits of Jupiter. Periodicities of 4, 7\u20139 and 10\u201314\u2009years were discovered that involve different latitude bands and seem disconnected from seasonal changes in solar heating. Anticorrelations of variability in opposite hemispheres were particularly striking at 16\u00b0, 22\u00b0 and 30\u00b0 from the equator. Equatorial temperature variations are also anticorrelated with those observed 60\u201370\u2009km above. Such behaviour suggests a top-down control of equatorial tropospheric temperatures from stratospheric dynamics.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unexpected patterns and teleconnections. 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