List of works - Leigh N. Fletcher

3D Modeling of interactions between Jupiter’s ammonia clouds and large anticyclones

A New, Long-lived, Jupiter Mesoscale Wave Observed at Visible Wavelengths

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A Survey of Small-Scale Waves and Wave-Like Phenomena in Jupiter's Atmosphere Detected by JunoCam

scientific article published on 28 June 2020

A Survey of Small-Scale Waves and Wave-Like Phenomena in Jupiter's Atmosphere Detected by JunoCam

A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

scholarly article

A hexagon in Saturn's northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex

scientific article published in Nature Communications

A holistic aerosol model for Uranus and Neptune, including Dark Spots

A multi-wavelength study of the 2009 impact on Jupiter: Comparison of high resolution images from Gemini, Keck and HST

scholarly article

A new value of Jupiter’s deep isentrope - implications for Jupiter’s deep thermal and compositional structure

Aerosols in the atmospheres of the Giant Planets

Amateur astronomy support to current and future space missions: From the 2010s to the 2030s

Ammonia in Jupiter's Troposphere From High-Resolution 5 μm Spectroscopy

scholarly article

Angular Dependence and Spatial Distribution of Jupiter's Centimeter‐Wave Thermal Emission From Juno's Microwave Radiometer

Book Review: "Planets: Ours and Others — From Earth to Exoplanets"

article

Characterizing Temperature and Aerosol Variability During Jupiter's 2006–2007 Equatorial Zone Disturbance

Colour and tropospheric cloud structure of Jupiter from MUSE/VLT: Retrieving a universal chromophore

Compositional Mapping of Europa Using MCMC Modeling of Near-IR VLT/SPHERE and Galileo/NIMS Observations

scientific article published in 2022

Constraining the atmospheric composition of the day-night terminators of HD 189733b: atmospheric retrieval with aerosols ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Constraining the depth of Saturn’s zonal winds by measuring thermal and gravitational signals

Constraints on Neptune's haze structure and formation from VLT observations in the H-band

scholarly article

Constraints on aerosol structure and formation in the atmosphere of the ice giants from microphysics simulations

Constraints on the Latitudinal Profile of Jupiter's Deep Jets

scientific article

Constraints on the latitudinal profile of Jupiter's deep jets

scientific article

Corrigendum to “Seasonal stratospheric photochemistry on Uranus and Neptune” [Icarus 307 (2018) 124–145]

scholarly article by Julianne I. Moses et al published November 2019 in Icarus

Corrigendum to: Meeting report: There's something in the air

scientific article published in June 2020

Depth of a strong jovian jet from a planetary-scale disturbance driven by storms.

scientific article

Detection of hydrogen sulfide above the clouds in Uranus’s atmosphere

Determination of the minimum masses of heavy elements in the envelopes of Jupiter and Saturn ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Disruption of Saturn’s quasi-periodic equatorial oscillation by the great northern storm

article by Leigh N. Fletcher et al published 23 October 2017 in Nature Astronomy

Dissecting Jupiter’s Thunderstorms: Results from JIRAM, JunoCam, MWR and Earth-Based Observations

Dynamics of Saturn's south polar vortex

scientific article published on March 2008

EChO ⬇️

Equatorial winds on Saturn and the stratospheric oscillation

article

Erratum: “Uranus in Northern Mid-spring: Persistent Atmospheric Temperatures and Circulations Inferred from Thermal Imaging” (2020, AJ, 159, 45)

scholarly article by Michael T. Roman et al published 2 July 2020 in The Astronomical Journal

Evolution of stratospheric chemistry in the Saturn storm beacon region

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Exoplanet atmospheres with EChO: spectral retrievals using EChOSim

Exploring the Depth of Planetary-Scale Changes in Jupiter from Juno Microwave Radiometer Observations

Exploring the diversity of Jupiter-class planets. ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

First ALMA Millimeter-wavelength Maps of Jupiter, with a Multiwavelength Study of Convection

First earth-based detection of a superbolide on Jupiter ⬇️

article

Fluctuations in Jupiter’s equatorial stratospheric oscillation

scientific article

From spectra to atmospheres: solving the underconstrained retrieval problem for exoplanets

Future Missions to the Giant Planets that Can Advance Atmospheric Science Objectives

scientific article

Galileo probe interpretation indicating a neutrally stable layer in the Jovian troposphere

scholarly article by Morgan E O'Neill et al published 14 May 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Giant Planet Observations with theJames Webb Space Telescope

Global and temporal variations in hydrocarbons and nitriles in Titan's stratosphere for northern winter observed by Cassini/CIRS

article

High-resolution UV/Optical/IR Imaging of Jupiter in 2016–2019

How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres?

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Hydrogen Dimers in Giant-planet Infrared Spectra

Hydrogen peroxide at the poles of Ganymede

scientific article published on 21 July 2023

Ice Giant Circulation Patterns: Implications for Atmospheric Probes

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Ice Giant Systems: The scientific potential of orbital missions to Uranus and Neptune

scientific article

Ice giant system exploration within ESA’s Voyage 2050

scientific article

Ideas for Citizen Science in Astronomy ⬇️

scholarly article by Philip J. Marshall et al published 18 August 2015 in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Identification of Jupiter’s magnetic equator through H3+ ionospheric emission

Infrared Characterization of Jupiter's Equatorial Disturbance Cycle

scholarly article by Arrate Antuñano et al published 29 October 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

JIRAM observations of Jupiter's upper troposphere

JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE): An ESA mission to orbit Ganymede and to characterise the Jupiter system

Jovian temperature and cloud variability during the 2009–2010 fade of the South Equatorial Belt ⬇️

scientific article

Juno Characterisation of Cyclonic “Folded Filamentary Regions” within Jupiter’s Polar Domains

Jupiter’s  Polar Vortices in the Mid-Infrared as Observed by Subaru/COMICS Prior to and During the Juno Mission

Jupiter’s Equatorial Atmosphere Observations

Jupiter's Equatorial Plumes and Hot Spots: Spectral Mapping from Gemini/TEXES and Juno/MWR

Jupiter's Overturning Circulation: Breaking Waves Take the Place of Solid Boundaries

scientific article published in 2021

Jupiter's Temperate Belt/Zone Contrasts Revealed at Depth by Juno Microwave Observations

scientific article

Jupiter's Temperate Belt/Zone Contrasts Revealed at Depth by Juno Microwave Observations

Jupiter's Temperate Belt/Zone Contrasts at Depth Revealed By Juno

Jupiter's Temperature Structure: A Reassessment of the Voyager Radio Occultation Measurements

scientific article published in 2022

Jupiter’s Ammonia Distribution Derived from VLA Maps at 3–37 GHz

Jupiter’s Atmospheric Variability from Long-term Ground-based Observations at 5 μm

Jupiter’s Mesoscale Waves Observed at 5 μm by Ground-based Observations and Juno JIRAM

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Jupiter’s para-H 2 distribution from SOFIA/FORCAST and Voyager/IRIS 17–37 µm spectroscopy ⬇️

scientific article

Latitudinal variation in the abundance of methane (CH4) above the clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE Narrow Field Mode Observations

scholarly article

Latitudinal variation of methane mole fraction above clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE-NFM: Limb-darkening reanalysis

scientific article

Less absorbed solar energy and more internal heat for Jupiter

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Limb-darkening reanalysis of latitudinal variation of cloud-top methane abundance in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE-NFM

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

Long-term Cycles of Variability of Jupiter’s Atmosphere from Ground-based Infrared Observations

Longitudinal Variations in the Stratosphere of Uranus from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrometer

scholarly article published 8 October 2020

Mapping of Jupiter’s tropospheric NH 3 abundance using ground-based IRTF/TEXES observations at 5 µm

scientific article

Meeting report: There's something in the air

Meridional distribution of CH3C2H and C4H2 in Saturn’s stratosphere from CIRS/Cassini limb and nadir observations

scholarly article

Mid-infrared mapping of Jupiter’s temperatures, aerosol opacity and chemical distributions with IRTF/TEXES

scientific article

Mid-infrared spectroscopy of Uranus from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrometer: 1. Determination of the mean temperature structure of the upper troposphere and stratosphere

scholarly article by Glenn S. Orton et al published November 2014 in Icarus

Mid-infrared spectroscopy of Uranus from the Spitzer infrared spectrometer: 2. Determination of the mean composition of the upper troposphere and stratosphere

article

Moist convection and the 2010–2011 revival of Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt ⬇️

Neptune Odyssey: A Flagship Concept for the Exploration of the Neptune–Triton System

scholarly article

Neptune at summer solstice: Zonal mean temperatures from ground-based observations, 2003–2007

article

Neptune’s global circulation deduced from multi-wavelength observations

scholarly article

New Observations and Modeling of Jupiter's Quasi-Quadrennial Oscillation

scholarly article, published in 2017

New insights on Saturn's formation from its nitrogen isotopic composition ⬇️

article

Oxygen compounds in Titan's stratosphere as observed by Cassini CIRS

Paving the way to an Ice Giants GCM : A radiative-convective modelling approach

Potential Vorticity of Saturn's Polar Regions: Seasonality and Instabilities

Probable detection of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) in Neptune’s atmosphere

Pro–am collaborations improve views of Jupiter

scholarly article by Leigh N. Fletcher & John H Rogers published 1 August 2018 in Astronomy & Geophysics

Recent Mid-Infrared Through Submillimeter Observations of Uranus and Neptune

scientific article

Recovery and characterization of Neptune's near-polar stratospheric hot spot

Residual Study: Testing Jupiter Atmosphere Models Against Juno MWR Observations

Revealing giant planet interiors beneath the cloudy veil

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

SOFIA Observations of Variability in Jupiter's Para-H2 Distribution and Subsurface Emission Characteristics of the Galilean Satellites

scholarly article

Saturn´s Stratospheric Hazes From HST Ultraviolet Imaging

scientific article

Saturn's New Ribbons: Cassini Observations of Planetary Waves in Saturn's 42N Atmospheric Jet

scholarly article by Jacob L. Gunnarson et al published 8 August 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Saturn's emitted power

scholarly article

Saturn's latitudinal C2H2 and C2H6 abundance profiles from Cassini/CIRS and ground-based observations

article

Saturn's north polar cyclone and hexagon at depth revealed by Cassini/VIMS

article

Saturn's seasonal atmosphere

Saturn's south polar vortex compared to other large vortices in the Solar System

article

Saturn’s Polar Atmosphere

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Saturn’s big storm

article by Leigh N. Fletcher published September 2017 in Nature Astronomy

Saturn’s tropospheric composition and clouds from Cassini/VIMS 4.6–5.1μm nightside spectroscopy

article

Seasonal change on Saturn from Cassini/CIRS observations, 2004–2009

article by Leigh N. Fletcher et al published July 2010 in Icarus

Seasonal evolution of Saturn’s polar temperatures and composition ⬇️

article

Seasonal stratospheric photochemistry on Uranus and Neptune

scientific article published on 10 February 2018

Seasonal variability of Saturn’s tropospheric temperatures, winds and para-H 2 from Cassini far-IR spectroscopy ⬇️

scientific article

Semi-annual oscillations in Saturn's low-latitude stratospheric temperatures

scientific article published on May 2008

Small-Scale Waves and Wave-Like Features in Jupiter’s Atmosphere Detected by JunoCam

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Spatial Variations in the Altitude of the CH4 Homopause at Jupiter’s Mid-to-high Latitudes, as Constrained from IRTF-TEXES Spectra

scholarly article

Spitzer’s Solar System studies of asteroids, planets and the zodiacal cloud

Stirring up Saturn's poles

Stratospheric aftermath of the 2010 Storm on Saturn as observed by the TEXES instrument. I. Temperature structure ⬇️

article by Thierry Fouchet et al published October 2016 in Icarus

Strong jet and a new thermal wave in Saturn's equatorial stratosphere

scholarly article

Sub-Seasonal Variations in Neptune's Stratospheric Infrared Emission from VLT-VISIR, 2006-2018

Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13) ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Temperature and composition of Saturn's polar hot spots and hexagon

scientific article

The 2009 Wesley impact: Asteroidal or Cometary?

The Case for a New Frontiers–Class Uranus Orbiter: System Science at an Underexplored and Unique World with a Mid-scale Mission

scientific article published in 2022

The Deep Composition of Uranus and Neptune from In Situ Exploration and Thermochemical Modeling

scientific article

The EChO science case

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 2015)

The Effects of Waves on the Meridional Thermal Structure of Jupiter’s Stratosphere

scholarly article

The H3+ ionosphere of Uranus: decades-long cooling and local-time morphology

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

The JWST Giant Planet Atmospheres Programme

The NEMESIS planetary atmosphere radiative transfer and retrieval tool

The aftermath of the July 2009 impact on Jupiter: Ammonia, temperatures and particulates from Gemini thermal infrared spectroscopy

scientific article

The long-term cooling of the upper atmosphere of Uranus

scholarly article published 8 October 2020

The origin and evolution of Saturn’s 2011–2012 stratospheric vortex

scientific article

The origin of nitrogen on Jupiter and Saturn from the 15 N/ 14 N ratio ⬇️

The science case for an orbital mission to Uranus: Exploring the origins and evolution of ice giant planets

scholarly article by C.S. Arridge et al published December 2014 in Planetary and Space Science

The science of EChO

article

The temporal evolution of the July 2009 Jupiter impact cloud

Thermal Emission from the Uranian Ring System

Thermal imaging of Uranus: Upper-tropospheric temperatures one season after Voyager

scholarly article by Glenn S. Orton et al published November 2015 in Icarus

Thermal structure and composition of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from high-resolution thermal imaging

article

Thermal structure and dynamics of Saturn's northern springtime disturbance

scientific article

Top 5 Elements in the Atmosphere of Uranus ⬇️

document published in 2019

Uranus Pathfinder: exploring the origins and evolution of Ice Giant planets

scholarly article by Christopher S. Arridge et al published 10 September 2011 in Experimental Astronomy

Uranus from JWST: First Results

Uranus in Northern Midspring: Persistent Atmospheric Temperatures and Circulations Inferred from Thermal Imaging

scholarly article by Michael T. Roman et al published 10 January 2020 in The Astronomical Journal

Uranus’ cloud particle properties and latitudinal methane variation from IRTF SpeX observations

scholarly article by Dane S. Tice et al published April 2013 in Icarus

Vertical profiles of HCN, HC3N, and C2H2 in Titan's atmosphere derived from Cassini/CIRS data

scientific article

List of works by Leigh N. Fletcher

3D Modeling of interactions between Jupiter’s ammonia clouds and large anticyclones

A New, Long-lived, Jupiter Mesoscale Wave Observed at Visible Wavelengths

A Survey of Small-Scale Waves and Wave-Like Phenomena in Jupiter's Atmosphere Detected by JunoCam

A Survey of Small-Scale Waves and Wave-Like Phenomena in Jupiter's Atmosphere Detected by JunoCam

A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

A hexagon in Saturn's northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex

A holistic aerosol model for Uranus and Neptune, including Dark Spots

A multi-wavelength study of the 2009 impact on Jupiter: Comparison of high resolution images from Gemini, Keck and HST

A new value of Jupiter’s deep isentrope - implications for Jupiter’s deep thermal and compositional structure

Aerosols in the atmospheres of the Giant Planets

Amateur astronomy support to current and future space missions: From the 2010s to the 2030s

Ammonia in Jupiter's Troposphere From High-Resolution 5 μm Spectroscopy

Angular Dependence and Spatial Distribution of Jupiter's Centimeter‐Wave Thermal Emission From Juno's Microwave Radiometer

Book Review: "Planets: Ours and Others — From Earth to Exoplanets"

Characterizing Temperature and Aerosol Variability During Jupiter's 2006–2007 Equatorial Zone Disturbance

Colour and tropospheric cloud structure of Jupiter from MUSE/VLT: Retrieving a universal chromophore

Compositional Mapping of Europa Using MCMC Modeling of Near-IR VLT/SPHERE and Galileo/NIMS Observations

Constraining the atmospheric composition of the day-night terminators of HD 189733b: atmospheric retrieval with aerosols ⬇️

Constraining the depth of Saturn’s zonal winds by measuring thermal and gravitational signals

Constraints on Neptune's haze structure and formation from VLT observations in the H-band

Constraints on aerosol structure and formation in the atmosphere of the ice giants from microphysics simulations

Constraints on the Latitudinal Profile of Jupiter's Deep Jets

Constraints on the latitudinal profile of Jupiter's deep jets

Corrigendum to “Seasonal stratospheric photochemistry on Uranus and Neptune” [Icarus 307 (2018) 124–145]

Corrigendum to: Meeting report: There's something in the air

Depth of a strong jovian jet from a planetary-scale disturbance driven by storms.

Detection of hydrogen sulfide above the clouds in Uranus’s atmosphere

Determination of the minimum masses of heavy elements in the envelopes of Jupiter and Saturn ⬇️

Disruption of Saturn’s quasi-periodic equatorial oscillation by the great northern storm

Dissecting Jupiter&#8217;s Thunderstorms: Results from JIRAM, JunoCam, MWR and Earth-Based Observations

Dynamics of Saturn's south polar vortex

EChO ⬇️

Equatorial winds on Saturn and the stratospheric oscillation

Erratum: “Uranus in Northern Mid-spring: Persistent Atmospheric Temperatures and Circulations Inferred from Thermal Imaging” (2020, AJ, 159, 45)

Evolution of stratospheric chemistry in the Saturn storm beacon region

Exoplanet atmospheres with EChO: spectral retrievals using EChOSim

Exploring the Depth of Planetary-Scale Changes in Jupiter from Juno Microwave Radiometer Observations

Exploring the Depth of Planetary-Scale Changes in Jupiter from Juno Microwave Radiometer Observations

Exploring the diversity of Jupiter-class planets. ⬇️

First ALMA Millimeter-wavelength Maps of Jupiter, with a Multiwavelength Study of Convection

First earth-based detection of a superbolide on Jupiter ⬇️

Fluctuations in Jupiter’s equatorial stratospheric oscillation

From spectra to atmospheres: solving the underconstrained retrieval problem for exoplanets

Future Missions to the Giant Planets that Can Advance Atmospheric Science Objectives

Galileo probe interpretation indicating a neutrally stable layer in the Jovian troposphere

Giant Planet Observations with theJames Webb Space Telescope

Global and temporal variations in hydrocarbons and nitriles in Titan's stratosphere for northern winter observed by Cassini/CIRS

High-resolution UV/Optical/IR Imaging of Jupiter in 2016–2019

How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres?

Hydrogen Dimers in Giant-planet Infrared Spectra

Hydrogen peroxide at the poles of Ganymede

Ice Giant Circulation Patterns: Implications for Atmospheric Probes

Ice Giant Systems: The scientific potential of orbital missions to Uranus and Neptune

Ice giant system exploration within ESA’s Voyage 2050

Ideas for Citizen Science in Astronomy ⬇️

Identification of Jupiter’s magnetic equator through H3+ ionospheric emission

Infrared Characterization of Jupiter's Equatorial Disturbance Cycle

JIRAM observations of Jupiter's upper troposphere

JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE): An ESA mission to orbit Ganymede and to characterise the Jupiter system

Jovian temperature and cloud variability during the 2009–2010 fade of the South Equatorial Belt ⬇️

Juno Characterisation of Cyclonic &#8220;Folded Filamentary Regions&#8221; within Jupiter&#8217;s Polar Domains

Jupiter&#8217;s &#160;Polar Vortices in the Mid-Infrared as Observed by Subaru/COMICS Prior to and During the Juno Mission

Jupiter&#8217;s Equatorial Atmosphere Observations

Jupiter's Equatorial Plumes and Hot Spots: Spectral Mapping from Gemini/TEXES and Juno/MWR

Jupiter's Overturning Circulation: Breaking Waves Take the Place of Solid Boundaries

Jupiter's Temperate Belt/Zone Contrasts Revealed at Depth by Juno Microwave Observations

Jupiter's Temperate Belt/Zone Contrasts Revealed at Depth by Juno Microwave Observations

Jupiter's Temperate Belt/Zone Contrasts at Depth Revealed By Juno

Jupiter's Temperature Structure: A Reassessment of the Voyager Radio Occultation Measurements

Jupiter’s Ammonia Distribution Derived from VLA Maps at 3–37 GHz

Jupiter’s Atmospheric Variability from Long-term Ground-based Observations at 5 μm

Jupiter’s Mesoscale Waves Observed at 5 μm by Ground-based Observations and Juno JIRAM

Jupiter’s para-H 2 distribution from SOFIA/FORCAST and Voyager/IRIS 17–37 µm spectroscopy ⬇️

Latitudinal variation in the abundance of methane (CH4) above the clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE Narrow Field Mode Observations

Latitudinal variation of methane mole fraction above clouds in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE-NFM: Limb-darkening reanalysis

Less absorbed solar energy and more internal heat for Jupiter

Limb-darkening reanalysis of latitudinal variation of cloud-top methane abundance in Neptune's atmosphere from VLT/MUSE-NFM

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914 ⬇️

Long-term Cycles of Variability of Jupiter&#8217;s Atmosphere from Ground-based Infrared Observations

Dissecting Jupiter’s Thunderstorms: Results from JIRAM, JunoCam, MWR and Earth-Based Observations

Juno Characterisation of Cyclonic “Folded Filamentary Regions” within Jupiter’s Polar Domains

Jupiter’s Polar Vortices in the Mid-Infrared as Observed by Subaru/COMICS Prior to and During the Juno Mission

Jupiter’s Equatorial Atmosphere Observations

Long-term Cycles of Variability of Jupiter’s Atmosphere from Ground-based Infrared Observations

Mapping of Jupiter’s tropospheric NH 3 abundance using ground-based IRTF/TEXES observations at 5 µm

Saturn´s Stratospheric Hazes From HST Ultraviolet Imaging

Small-Scale Waves and Wave-Like Features in Jupiter’s Atmosphere Detected by JunoCam