Titan Clouds and Atmospheric Waves: Observations to Model Connection

Titan has a fully developed atmosphere analogous to that of Earths because it is composed mainly of nitrogen. Moreover, methane plays a role similar to water in the hydrological cycle on our planet, generating clouds and rain. We study Titans cloud activity to provide a general physical perspective of observed storms and their relation to atmospheric dynamics. As a continuation of our previous study of a cloud storm we call Streamers, we present the work done to this and a handful of other cloud events found in the Cassini ISS data to describe storm characteristics and search for time evolution patterns to identify the dynamics behind them. We find that just as waves organize storms on Earth, they do on Titan as well. The analysis and results of the connection between observations and model simulations will be discussed.