Physical oceanography PhD student at the University of Hawaii. I also write things about submarines.
Joined April 2013
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15 Sep 2022
New paper out in Icarus about lightning storms on Saturn with @WindyPlanets and others. We started working on this paper in 2018 when I was at Hampton U., so I'm very glad it's finally published! A short summary in the following thread
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15 Sep 2022
We conjecture that most of the storms were too weak to disrupt the cyclone, but the seventh storm was. Based on our observations, that last storm could have uplifted enough mass to destroy the cyclone in about 10 hours.
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15 Sep 2022
All in all, it was fun to be able to combine the fabulous images and radio data from Cassini to get a glimpse into thunderstorms on another planet.
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21 Oct 2019
New co-author paper out. It was a lot of fun hunting for the cyclone precursor to this storm in the Cassini data.
21 Oct 2019
Four large storms developed on Saturn's northern polar region in 2018 at almost the same latitude, spanning 200 days and interacting with each other in a complex way. Sánchez-Lavega et al.: nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
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Jacob Gunnarson retweeted
6 Sep 2019
There’s a popular myth that Soviet nuclear submarines sacrificed shielding in the name of speed. It’s false, but /u/Vepr157 explains the very real intelligence gathering that gave birth to this myth. #Twitterstorians #ColdWar #navalhist
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Jacob Gunnarson retweeted
17 Aug 2019
Over the last few weeks, @JacobGunnarson and I have been investigating the Albacore, Skipjack, and the GW class of boats. It has been a fun journey and we have found some interesting information. In the process it appears that we found the Series 58 hullform for the Albacore
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Jacob Gunnarson retweeted
22 May 2019
Uranus! And its moons! With background galaxies! In near-infrared! Click for original (high quality) gif:
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29 Dec 2018
My prediction for MU69’s shape, courtesy of the grocery store
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31 Dec 2018
TFW you're waiting for the New Horizons failsafe images to be released
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30 Oct 2018
The new 5-micron images from Juno/JIRAM are stunning
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