Stories by Andrew P. Ingersoll

The giant blue-green planet visited last January by Voyager 2 has one pole pointing toward the sun, and its magnetic field is askew. Its atmosphere is dense and icy, yet its winds resemble the earth's

Its dynamic activity serves to distribute the energy of solar radiation received by the earth. Models of this activity help to explain climates of the past and predict those of the future

Competing models seek to describe the sun's two giant companions. In one model the winds are confined to a thin layer at the surface; in another the winds extend through the fluid depths of each planet

The visible features of the giant planet reflect the circulation of its atmosphere. A model reproducing those features should apply to other planetary atmospheres, including the earth's