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Jonathan Mitchell, Assistant Professor |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Planetary atmospheres: Characterization of the fluid flow of the atmospheres of the terrestrial planets and moons, with current emphasis on Titan and Earth.
Comparative planetary climate: Physical processes and surface-atmosphere interactions controlling the range of observed planetary climates.
Torques on synchronous satellites: Understand the physical processes behind observed or inferred non-synchronous components of the spins of tide-locked satellites.
Extrasolar planets: Atmospheric circulation and heat transport in exotic regimes, including hot Jupiters and tide-locked terrestrial planets around M-dwarfs. |
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Education |
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| | B.S. in Physics, 2000, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
M.S. in Astrophysics, 2002, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, 2007, The University of Chciago, Chicago, IL |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Mitchell, J. L. “Coupling convectively driven atmospheric circulation to surface rotation: Evidence for active methane weather in the observed spin rate drift of Titan” to be published in ApJ. |
| | Mitchell, J. L. “The drying of Titan’s dunes: Titan’s methane hydrology and it’s impact on atmospheric circulation” J. Geophys. Res., 113, E08015, doi:10.1029/2007JE003017, 2008. |
| | Mitchell, J. L., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Frierson, D. M. W., Caballero, R. “The Dynamics Behind Titan’s Methane Clouds” PNAS vol. 103, no. 49, pp. 18421-18426, 2006. |
| | Caballero, R., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Mitchell, J. L. “Axisymmetric, nearly inviscid circulations in non-condensing radiative-convective atmospheres”, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 134, issue 634, pp. 1269-1285, 2008. |
| | Mitchell, J. L., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Frierson, D. M. W., Caballero, R. “The impact of methane thermodynamics on seasonal convection and circulation in a model Titan atmosphere”, submitted to Icarus. |
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