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.

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Planetary Science

Studying geophysical processes throughout our solar system and beyond

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People

Suzanne Aigrain

Lecturer in Astrophysics
Raymond Pierrehumbert

Halley Professorship of Physics
Peter Read

Professor of Physics
Caroline Terquem

Professor of Physics
Neil Bowles

University Lecturer
Simon Calcutt

University Research Lecturer
Patrick Irwin

Professor of Planetary Physics
Jean-Loup Baudino

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Graham Lee

Post-Doctoral Researcher - Bernoulli Fellow
Tess Parker

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Daniel Toledo Carrasco

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Tristram Warren

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Colin Wilson

Researcher
Kerri Donaldson Hanna

UKSA Aurora Research Fellow
Matthias Tecza

Harmoni Instrument Scientist
Helena Bates

Graduate student
Ashwin Braude

Graduate student
Andrew Bunting

Grad Student
Rupert Dodkins

Graduate Student
Rory Evans

Graduate student
Ryan Garland

Graduate student
Mark Hammond

Graduate student
Chin-Min Liu

Graduate student
Charlotte Marriner

Graduate Student
Cherry Qian

Graduate student
Vinesh Rajpaul

DPhil Student
Fachreddin Tabataba-Vakili

DPhil Student
Alexandru Valeanu

Graduate Student
Susie Wright

Graduate student
Jon Temple

Technical Specialist - Flight Systems
Sophie Bauduin

Visitor
Jane Hurley

Post-doctoral Research Associate
Benjamin Pope

DPhil Student
Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics Emeritus

Publications

Ice-shelf damming in the glacial Arctic Ocean
CRYOSPHERE 11 (2017) 1745-1765
J Nilsson, M Jakobsson, C Borstad et al.
On the energy dissipation rate at the inner edge of circumbinary discs
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 464 (2017) 2429-2440
C Terquem, JCB Papaloizou
On the formation of planetary systems in photoevaporating transition discs
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 464 (2017) 924-932
C Terquem
A rotating annulus driven by localized convective forcing: a new atmosphere-like experiment
EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS 58 (2017) ARTN 75
H Scolan, PL Read
A precise optical transmission spectrum of the inflated exoplanet WASP-52b
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 470 (2017) 742-754
T Louden, PJ Wheatley, PGJ Irwin et al.
Space weathering effects in Diviner Lunar Radiometer multispectral infrared measurements of the lunar Chr...
ICARUS 283 (2017) 343-351
PG Lucey, BT Greenhagen, E Song et al.
Latitudinal variability in Jupiter ' s tropospheric disequilibrium species: GeH4, AsH3 and PH3
ICARUS 289 (2017) 254-269
RS Giles, LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin
CoRoT 223992193: Investigating the variability in a low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary with evi...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 599 (2017) ARTN A27
E Gillen, S Aigrain, C Terquem et al.
HST/WFC3 observations of Uranus' 2014 storm clouds and comparison with VLT/SINFONI and IRTF/Spex observat...
ICARUS 288 (2017) 99-119
PGJ Irwin, MH Wong, AA Simon et al.
The thermal structure of the Venus atmosphere
ICARUS 294 (2017) 124-155
SS Limaye, S Lebonnois, A Mahieux et al.
Composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) on Cassini
Applied Optics 56 (2017) 5274-5294
DE Jennings, FM Flasar, VG Kunde et al.
Sulfur dioxide in the Venus atmosphere: I. Vertical distribution and variability
ICARUS 295 (2017) 16-33
AC Vandaele, O Korablev, D Belyaev et al.
Sulfur dioxide in the Venus Atmosphere: II. Spatial and temporal variability
ICARUS 295 (2017) 1-15
AC Vandaele, O Korablev, D Belyaev et al.
Ertel potential vorticity versus Bernoulli streamfunction on Mars
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 143 (2017) 37-52
TE Dowling, ME Bradley, J Du et al.
Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP65426
ArXiv e-prints (2017)
G Chauvin, S Desidera, A-M Lagrange et al.
Orbiting a binary: SPHERE characterisation of the HD 284149 system
ArXiv e-prints (2017)
M Bonavita, V D Orazi, D Mesa et al.
Jupiter's para-H-2 distribution from SOFIA/FORCAST and Voyager/IRIS 17-37 mu m spectroscopy
ICARUS 286 (2017) 223-240
LN Fletcher, I de Pater, WT Reach et al.
Observational evidence against strongly stabilizing tropical cloud feedbacks
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 1503-1510
IN Williams, RT Pierrehumbert
Jupiter's auroral-related stratospheric heating and chemistry I
ICARUS 292 (2017) 182-207
JA Sinclair, GS Orton, TK Greathouse et al.
Moist convection and the 2010-2011 revival of Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt
ICARUS 286 (2017) 94-117
LN Fletcher, GS Orton, JH Rogers et al.
Independent evolution of stratospheric temperatures in Jupiter's northern and southern auroral regions fr...
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44 (2017) 5345-5354
JA Sinclair, GS Orton, TK Greathouse et al.
Reconstructing Climate from Glaciers
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 45 (2017)
AN Mackintosh, BM Anderson, RT Pierrehumbert
A CONSISTENT RETRIEVAL ANALYSIS OF 10 HOT JUPITERS OBSERVED IN TRANSMISSION
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 834 (2017) ARTN 50
JK Barstow, S Aigrain, PGJ Irwin et al.
Spectral analysis of Uranus' 2014 bright storm with VLT/SINFONI
ICARUS 264 (2016) 72-89
PGJ Irwin, LN Fletcher, PL Read et al.
HST HOT-JUPITER TRANSMISSION SPECTRAL SURVEY: CLEAR SKIES FOR COOL SATURN WASP-39b
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 827 (2016) ARTN 19
PD Fischer, HA Knutson, DK Sing et al.
ROTATION IN THE PLEIADES WITH K2. I. DATA AND FIRST RESULTS
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 152 (2016) ARTN 113
LM Rebull, JR Stauffer, J Bouvier et al.
The Hera Saturn entry probe mission
PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE 130 (2016) 80-103
O Mousis, DH Atkinson, T Spilker et al.
Detection of H-3(+) auroral emission in Jupiter's 5-micron window
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 589 (2016) ARTN A67
RS Giles, LN Fletcher, PGJ Irwin et al.
Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 6 (2016) 360-369
PU Clark, JD Shakun, SA Marcott et al.
A regime diagram for ocean geostrophic turbulence
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 142 (2016) 2411-2417
A Klocker, DP Marshall, SR Keating et al.
How to decarbonize? Look to Sweden
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 72 (2016) 105-111
R Pierrehumbert
CONVECTION IN CONDENSIBLE-RICH ATMOSPHERES
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 822 (2016) ARTN 24
F Ding, RT Pierrehumbert
Mid-infrared mapping of Jupiter's temperatures, aerosol opacity and chemical distributions with IRTF/TEXE...
ICARUS 278 (2016) 128-161
LN Fletcher, TK Greathouse, GS Orton et al.
A continuum from clear to cloudy hot-Jupiter exoplanets without primordial water depletion.
Nature 529 (2016) 59-62
DK Sing, JJ Fortney, N Nikolov et al.
Dynamics of atmospheres with a non-dilute condensible component.
Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 472 (2016) 20160107-
RT Pierrehumbert, F Ding
Exploring the Venus global super-rotation using a comprehensive general circulation model
PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE 134 (2016) 1-18
JM Mendonca, PL Read
Giant Planet Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 128 (2016) ARTN 018005
J Norwood, J Moses, LN Fletcher et al.
Telling twins apart: exo-Earths and Venuses with transit spectroscopy
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 458 (2016) 2657-2666
JK Barstow, S Aigrain, PGJ Irwin et al.
Seismic Coupling of Short-Period Wind Noise Through Mars’ Regolith for NASA’s InSight Lander
Space Science Reviews (2016) 1-16
NA Teanby, J Stevanović, J Wookey et al.
Simulated stellar kinematics studies of high-redshift galaxies with the HARMONI Integral Field Spectrogra...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 458 (2016) 2405-2422
S Kendrew, S Zieleniewski, RCW Houghton et al.
Ghost in the time series: no planet for Alpha Cen B
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 456 (2016) L6-L10
V Rajpaul, S Aigrain, S Roberts
The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey II. An overly large Rayleigh-like feature for exoplanet TrE...
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 585 (2016) ARTN A114
H Parviainen, E Palle, L Nortmann et al.
NEW PLEIADES ECLIPSING BINARIES AND A HYADES TRANSITING SYSTEM IDENTIFIED BY K2
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 151 (2016) ARTN 112
TJ David, KE Conroy, LA Hillenbrand et al.
The solsticial pause on Mars: 2 modelling and investigation of causes
ICARUS 264 (2016) 465-477
DP Mulholland, SR Lewis, PL Read et al.
Dual-telescope multi-channel thermal-infrared radiometer for outer planet fly-by missions
ACTA ASTRONAUTICA 128 (2016) 628-639
S Aslam, M Amato, N Bowles et al.
Saturn's tropospheric particles phase function and spatial distribution from Cassini ISS 2010-11 observat...
ICARUS 277 (2016) 1-18
S Perez-Hoyos, J Francisco Sanz-Requena, A Sanchez-Lavega et al.
Galactic cosmic rays on extrasolar Earth-like planets II. Atmospheric implications
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 587 (2016) ARTN A159
J-M Griessmeier, F Tabataba-Vakili, A Stadelmann et al.
Atmospheric effects of stellar cosmic rays on Earth-like exoplanets orbiting M-dwarfs
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 585 (2016) ARTN A96
F Tabataba-Vakili, JL Grenfell, J-M Griessmeier et al.
ISOTOPIC RATIOS OF CARBON AND OXYGEN IN TITAN'S CO USING ALMA
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 821 (2016) ARTN L8
J Serigano, CA Nixon, MA Cordiner et al.
K2SC: flexible systematics correction and detrending of K2 light curves using Gaussian process regression...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 459 (2016) 2408-2419
S Aigrain, H Parviainen, BJS Pope
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