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Polar vortices on Jupiter

Patterns of polar cyclones are located about the poles on Jupiter. How are they generated? Why are they stable? Why don’t they merge? I’m currently trying to characterize the long-term behavior of this phenomenon and model their generation and stability mechanisms.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

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Y. Wang, P.L. Read, F. Tabataba-Vakili, R.M.B. Young. “Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: I. From cyclostrophic superrotation to geostrophic turbulence.” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. (2018) doi: 10.1002/qj.3350
S. Brown, M. Janssen, V. Adumitroaie, S. Atreya, S. Bolton, S Gulkis, A. Ingersoll, S. Levin, C. Li, L. Li, J. Lunine, S. Misra, G. Orton, P. Steffes, F. Tabataba-Vakili, I. Kolmasova, M. Imai, O. Santolik, W. Kurth, G. Hospodarsky, D. Gurnett, J. Connerney. “Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles” Nature 558, no. 7708 (2018): 87. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0156-5
D. Grassi, A. Adriani, M.L. Moriconi, A. Mura, F. Tabataba-Vakili, A. Ingersoll, G. Orton, C. Hansen, F. Altieri, G. Filacchione, G. Sindoni, B.M. Dinelli, F. Fabiano, S. J Bolton, J.E.P. Connerney, S. Levin, S.K. Atreya, J.I. Lunine, T. Momary, F. Tosi, A. Migliorini, G.Piccioni, R. Noschese, A. Cicchetti, C. Plainaki, A. Olivieri, D. Turrini, S. Stefani, R. Sordini, M. Amoroso. “First estimate of wind fields in the Jupiter polar regions from JIRAM-Juno images.” Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets. (2018). doi: 10.1029/2018JE005555
A.A. Simon, F. Tabataba-Vakili, R. Costentino, R.F. Beebe, M.H. Wong, G.S. Orton. “Historical and Contemporary Trends in the Size, Drift, and Color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot” Astronomical Journal 155-4 (2018): 151. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/aaae01
Adriani, A. Mura, G. Orton, C. Hansen, F. Altieri, M.L. Moriconi, J. Rogers, G. Eichstdt, T. Momary, A.P. Ingersoll, G. Filacchione, G. Sindoni, F. Tabataba-Vakili, B.M. Dinelli, F. Fabiano, S.J. Bolton, J.E.P Connerney, S.K. Atreya, J.I. Lunine, F. Tosi, A. Migliorini, D. Grassi, G. Piccioni, R. Noschese, A. Cicchetti, C. Plainaki, A. Olivieri, D. Turrini, S. Stefani, R. Sordini and M. Amoroso “Clusters of cyclones encircling Jupiter’s poles” Nature 555, no. 7695 (2018): 216. doi: 10.1038/nature25491 pdf
J.-M. Grießmeier, F. Tabataba-Vakili, A. Stadelmann, J. L. Grenfell, and D. Atri. “Galactic cosmic rays on extrasolar Earth-like planets-II. Atmospheric implications.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 587 (2016): A159. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425452 pdf
F. Tabataba-Vakili, J. L. Grenfell, J-M. Grießmeier, and H. Rauer. “Atmospheric effects of stellar cosmic rays on Earth-like exoplanets orbiting M-dwarfs.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 585 (2016): A96. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425602 pdf
J.-M. Grießmeier, F. Tabataba-Vakili, A. Stadelmann, J. L. Grenfell, and D. Atri. “Galactic cosmic rays on extrasolar Earth-like planets-I. Cosmic ray flux.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 581 (2015): A44. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425451 pdf
F. Tabataba-Vakili, P. L. Read, S. R. Lewis, L. Montabone, T. Ruan, Y. Wang, A. Valeanu, and R.M.B. Young. “A Lorenz/Boer energy budget for the atmosphere of Mars from a re-analysis of spacecraft observations.” Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015): 8320-8327. doi: 10.1002/2015GL065659 pdf
C. Sandin , P. Weilbacher, F. Tabataba-Vakili, S. Kamann, and O. Streicher. “Automated and generalized integral-field spectroscopy data reduction using p3d.” SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+Instrumentation, pp. 84510F-84510F. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2012. doi: 10.1117/12.926092 pdf

2017- : Postdoctoral Research Scholar
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Duties included: Characterizing and understanding polar cyclones on Jupiter, Coordinating Earth-based observation efforts of Jupiter
- Supervisor: Glenn S. Orton