Planetary Physics

Research groups in this theme

Exoplanets

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

We study the fundamental principles underlying the dynamics of planetary atmospheres using numerical models and laboratory experiments.

Planetary Science

Studying geophysical processes throughout our solar system and beyond

People

Suzanne Aigrain

Professor of Astrophysics
Neil Bowles

Associate Professor
Simon Calcutt

University Research Lecturer
Patrick Irwin

Professor of Planetary Physics
Raymond Pierrehumbert

Halley Professorship of Physics
Peter Read

Professor of Physics
Caroline Terquem

Professor of Physics
Colin Wilson

Senior Research Fellow
Jayne Birkby

Associate Professor of Exoplanetary Science
Oscar Barragan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Xianyu Tan

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Tristram Warren

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Mitchell Young

Postdoctoral Researcher
Tim Lichtenberg

Postdoctoral Fellow
Maxence Lefevre

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Kevin Olsen

UKSA Aurora Fellow
Matthias Tecza

HARMONI Instrument Scientist
Charlotte Marriner
Juan Alday Parejo

Graduate Student
Helena Bates

Graduate student
Ryan Boukrouche

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Eloïse Brown

Graudate Student
Andrew Bunting

Grad Student
Rowan Curtis

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Rory Evans

Graduate student
Robert Graham

DPhil student in AOPP
Mark Hammond

Graduate student
Andrea Hidalgo Valadez

DPhil in Astrophysics (Astronomical instrumentation)
Hamish Innes

1st Year DPhil Student
Neil Lewis

Graduate Student
Alvaro Menduina

DPhil Student
Jake Taylor

Graduate Student
Joost Wardenier

DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Norbert Zicher

Graduate Student
Jon Temple

Technical Specialist - Flight Systems
Vinesh Rajpaul

Visiting researcher
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

Latitudinal variation of methane mole fraction above clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE-NFM
Icarus Elsevier 357 (2020) 114277
PGJ Irwin, J Dobinson, A James et al.
Potential vorticity structure of Titan’s polar vortices from Cassini CIRS observations
Icarus Elsevier BV (2020) 114030
J Sharkey, NA Teanby, M Sylvestre et al.
Neptune’s HCl upper limit from Herschel/HIFI
Icarus Elsevier 354 (2020) 114045
N Teanby, B Gould, PGJ Irwin
Introduction to Icarus special issue “From Mars Express to ExoMars”
Icarus Elsevier (2020)
MA Lopez-Valverde, DV Titov, CF Wilson
Spatial Variations in the Altitude of the CH4 Homopause at Jupiter’s Mid-to-high Latitudes, as Constraine...
The Planetary Science Journal American Astronomical Society 1 (2020) 85-85
JA Sinclair, TK Greathouse, RS Giles et al.
Revealing the Intensity of Turbulent Energy Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres
Geophysical Research Letters 47 (2020)
S Cabanes, S Espa, B Galperin et al.
Colour and tropospheric cloud structure of Jupiter from MUSE/VLT: retrieving a universal chromophore
Icarus Elsevier 338 (2020) 113589
AS Braude, P Irwin, GS Orton et al.
Color and aerosol changes in Jupiter after a North Temperate Belt disturbance
Icarus Elsevier BV 352 (2020) 114031
S Pérez-Hoyos, A Sánchez-Lavega, J Sanz-Requena et al.
The turbulent dynamics of Jupiter's and Saturn's weather layers: order out of chaos?
GEOSCIENCE LETTERS 7 (2020) ARTN 10
PL Read, RMB Young, D Kennedy
Wintertime Southern Hemisphere jet streams shaped by interaction of transient eddies with Antarctic orogr...
Journal of Climate Wiley 33 (2020) 10505-10522
M Patterson, T Woollings, T Bracegirdle et al.
Detection of CH3C3N in Titan’s Atmosphere
The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 903 (2020) L22-L22
AE Thelen, MA Cordiner, CA Nixon et al.
Prospects for characterizing the haziest sub-Neptune exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy
Astronomical Journal IOP Publishing 160 (2020) 160-198
CE Hood, JJ Fortney, MR Line et al.
Detection of Cyclopropenylidene on Titan with ALMA
The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 160 (2020) 205-205
CA Nixon, AE Thelen, MA Cordiner et al.
Constraints on Neptune’s haze structure and formation from VLT observations in the H-band
Icarus Elsevier (2020)
D Toledo Carrasco, P Irwin, P Rannou et al.
Hydrological Cycle Changes Explain Weak Snowball Earth Storm Track Despite Increased Surface Baroclinicit...
Geophysical Research Letters 47 (2020)
T Shaw, R Graham
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked gas giants with increasing rotation and implications for white ...
Astrophysical Journal 902 (2020)
X Tan, AP Showman
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked gas giants with increasing rotation and implications for white-...
Astrophysical Journal IOP Publishing 902 (2020) 27
X Tan, AP Showman
The Phase-curve Signature of Condensible Water-rich Atmospheres on Slowly Rotating Tidally Locked Exoplan...
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 901 (2020) ARTN L33
F Ding, RT Pierrehumbert
Long-duration Venus lander for seismic and atmospheric science
Planetary and Space Science Elsevier 190 (2020) 104961
T Kremic, R Ghail, M Gilmore et al.
C2N2 vertical profile in Titan’s stratosphere
Astronomical Journal IOP Publishing 160 (2020) 178
M Sylvestre, N Teanby, M Dobrijevic et al.
Simulating gas kinematic studies of high-redshift galaxies with the HARMONI integral field spectrograph
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 498 (2020) 1891-1904
MLA Richardson, L Routledge, N Thatte et al.
The Equatorial Jet Speed on Tidally Locked Planets. I. Terrestrial Planets
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 901 (2020) ARTN 78
M Hammond, S-M Tsai, RT Pierrehumbert
Studying the Composition and Mineralogy of the Hermean Surface with the Mercury Radiometer and Thermal In...
Space Science Reviews 216 (2020)
H Hiesinger, J Helbert, G Alemanno et al.
Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium transmission spectrum modelling of HD 209458b
Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 641 (2020) A47-A47
ME Young, L Fossati, TT Koskinen et al.
Continuous structural parameterization
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems American Geophysical Union 12 (2020) e2020MS002085
F Lambert, P Challenor, N Lewis et al.
Simplified 3D GCM modelling of the irradiated brown dwarf WD 0137−349B
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 496 (2020) 4674-4687
GKH Lee, SL Casewell, KL Chubb et al.
First detection of ozone in the mid-infrared at Mars: implications for methane detection
Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 639 (2020) A141
K Olsen, F Lefèvre, F Montmessin et al.
First observation of the magnetic dipole CO2 main isotopologue absorption band at 3.3 µm in the atmospher...
Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 639 (2020) A142
A Trokhimovskiy, V Perevalov, O Korablev et al.
Spatial structure in Neptune’s 7.90-m stratospheric CH emission, as measured by VLT-VISIR
Icarus Elsevier 345 (2020) 113748
J Sinclair, G Orton, L Fletcher et al.
Uranus in Northern Mid-spring: Persistent Atmospheric Temperatures and Circulations Inferred from Thermal...
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL American Astronomical Society 160 (2020) ARTN 56
MT Roman, LN Fletcher, GS Orton et al.
Pleiades or Not? Resolving the Status of the Lithium-rich M Dwarfs HHJ 339 and HHJ 430
Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 160 (2020) 30
J Stauffer, D Barrado, T David et al.
Mon-735: a new low-mass pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary in NGC 2264
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 495 (2020) 1531-1548
E Gillen, LA Hillenbrand, J Stauffer et al.
Thermodynamic and energetic limits on continental silicate weathering strongly impact the climate and hab...
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 896 (2020) 115
R Graham, R Pierrehumbert
Jupiter in the Ultraviolet: Acetylene and Ethane Abundances in the Stratosphere of Jupiter from Cassini O...
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL American Astronomical Society 159 (2020) ARTN 291
H Melin, L Fletcher, P Irwin et al.
Planet Hunters TESS I: TOI 813, a subgiant hosting a transiting Saturn-sized planet on an 84-day orbit
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 494 (2020) 750-763
N Eisner, O Barragan Villanueva, S Aigrain et al.
Molecular cross-sections for high-resolution spectroscopy of super-Earths, warm Neptunes, and hot Jupiter...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 495 (2020) 224-237
S Gandhi, M Brogi, SN Yurchenko et al.
Understanding and mitigating biases when studying inhomogeneous emission spectra with JWST
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Royal Astronomical Society (2020)
J Taylor, V Parmentier, P Irwin et al.
Baroclinic and barotropic instabilities in planetary atmospheres
NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS 27 (2020) 147-173
P Read, D Kennedy, N Lewis et al.
Demonstrating GWP*: a means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impac...
Environmental Research Letters IOP Publishing 15 (2020) 044023
JM Lynch, M Cain, RT Pierrehumbert et al.
A weak spectral signature of water vapour in the atmosphere of HD 179949 b at high spectral resolution in...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 494 (2020) 108-119
RK Webb, M Brogi, S Gandhi et al.
Ice giant circulation patterns: Implications for atmospheric probes
Space Science Reviews Springer 216 (2020) 21
L Fletcher, DP Imke, G Orton et al.
Constraints on the shallow elastic and anelastic structure of Mars from InSight seismic data
Nature Geoscience Springer Nature 13 (2020) 213-220
P Lognonné, WB Banerdt, WT Pike et al.
A robust, template-free approach to precise radial velocity extraction
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 492 (2020) 3960-3983
VM Rajpaul, S Aigrain, LA Buchhave
Initial results from the InSight mission on Mars
Nature Geoscience Springer Nature 13 (2020) 183-189
D Banfield, GS Collins, I Daubar et al.
Thermal versus mechanical topography: an experimental investigation in a rotating baroclinic annulus
Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Taylor and Francis (2020)
SD Marshall, P Read
Advanced Net Flux Radiometer for the Ice Giants
Space Science Reviews Springer Verlag 216 (2020)
S Aslam, RK Achterberg, SB Calcutt et al.
Ice, fire, or fizzle: The climate footprint of Earth's supercontinental cycles
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems American Geophysical Union 21 (2020) e2019GC008464
M Jellinek, A Lenardic, R Pierrehumbert
Venus III The View After Venus Express
Springer, 2020
B Bézard, C Russell, T Satoh et al.
Evidence for H2 dissociation and recombination heat transport in the atmosphere of KELT-9b
Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 888 (2020) L15
M Mansfield, JL Bean, KB Stevenson et al.
Erratum: “An 11 Earth-mass, Long-period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star” (2019, AJ, 158, 165)
The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 159 (2020) 34-34
AW Mayo, VM Rajpaul, LA Buchhave et al.
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