Research Interests

• Planetary atmosphere dynamics, radiative transfer, photochemistry
• Jupiter, polar vortices, vortex crystals, mesoscale waves
• Geophysical fluid dynamics, planetary circulation regimes, super-rotation, equatorial waves
• Atmospheric macroturbulence, Lorenz energy cycle, spectral energy flux
• Exoplanet habitability, detectability of biomarkers

Featured Research

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