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[Houghton Lecture] Yohai Kaspi (Weizmann Institute) – The atmospheric dynamics of Jupiter, Part II: the multiple midlatitude jet-streams and Ferrel cells

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm Location: 54-209 M. Nafi Toksöz Seminar Room | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window
Categories: Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate Planetary Science Research Lectures

This is the second of a series of three talks about Jupiter’s atmospheric dynamics, with a focus on discoveries since the arrival of NASA’s Juno mission…

[ESAC Seminar] Thatcher Chamberlin

Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025 Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm Location: 54-209 M. Nafi Toksöz Seminar Room | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
Categories: Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate Community Gatherings Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology Geophysics Planetary Science Student + Postdoc Groups

“Viscosity Dependence of Temperate Ice in Antarctic Shear Margins” Extreme shear deformation and high shear stresses at the edges of Antarctic ice strea…

[Houghton Lecture] Yohai Kaspi (Weizmann Institute) – The atmospheric dynamics of Jupiter, Part III: the equatorial superrotating flows

Date: Friday, October 31, 2025 Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm Location: 55-110 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window
Categories: Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate Planetary Science Research Lectures

This is the third of a series of three talks about Jupiter’s atmospheric dynamics, with a focus on discoveries since the arrival of NASA’s Juno mission …

[Houghton Lecture] Yohai Kaspi (Weizmann Institute) – Atmospheric dynamics of terrestrial planets over a wide range of orbital conditions

Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 Time: 10:00 - 11:00am Location: 54-209 M. Nafi Toksöz Seminar Room | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window
Categories: Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate Planetary Science Research Lectures

The atmospheric circulation of terrestrial planets emerges from the interplay between rotation, stratification, radiative forcing, and surface–atmospher…

[Houghton Lecture] Yohai Kaspi (Weizmann Institute) – Geostrophic turbulence in planetary atmospheres

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 Time: 10:00 - 11:00am Location: 54-209 M. Nafi Toksöz Seminar Room | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window
Categories: Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate Planetary Science Research Lectures

Planetary rotation plays a key role in controlling the large scale turbulence (macroturbulence) in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. In planetary settings …