In Prep or submitted:

Lee, H., Mitchell, J.L., Lora, J.M., and Tripati, A.E. “Stationary waves control North American summer precipitation during Last Glacial Maximum”.

Khurana, K.K., Mitchell, J.L. and Mueller-Wodarg, I.C.F. “How are Saturn’s mysterious radio clocks driven?”.

Corlies, P, Hayes, A.G., Rodriguez, S., Adamkovics, M., Kelland, J., Turtle, E.P., Lora, J. and Mitchell, J.L. “A complete analysis of clouds in the Cassini VIMS dataset”.

Corlies, P., Kelland, J.A., Hayes, A.G., Rodriguez, S., Turtle, E.P., Barbara, J., Adamkovics, M., Lora, J., Newman, C. and Mitchell, J.L. “Measurements of Titan’s wind profile using cloud tracking in Cassini VIMS”

Feng, X., Ding, Q., Wu, L., Jones, C., Baxter, I., Tardif, R., Mitchell, J.L., and Carvalho, L. “A tropically-driven global teleconnection linking the Arctic and Antarctic over the past century to millennium”.

Imamura, T., Mitchell, J.L., Lebonnois, S., Kaspi, Y., Showman, A.P., Korablev, O. “Superrotation in planetary atmospheres”, submitted to Space Science Reviews (2019).

Topál, D., Ding, Q, Mitchell, J.L., Baxter, I., Herein, M. And Hazpra, T. “An Internal Atmospheric Process Determining Summertime Arctic Sea Ice Melting in the Next Three Decades” submitted to Journal of Climate (2019).

Hill, S.A., Bordoni, S., and Mitchell, J.L. “Meridional variations in radiative convective equilibrium tropopause height and their influence on the Hadley cells” submitted to Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (2019).

Accepted or published:

Faulk, S.P., Lora, J.M., Mitchell, J.L., and Milly, P.C.D. “Coupled atmosphere-surface hydrology modeling of Titan reproduces observed climate patterns and surface methane distribution” Nature Astronomy (accepted).

Lee, H., Mitchell, J.L., Tripati, A.E., Lora, J.M., Chen, G. And Ding, Q. “North Atlantic and Pacific longitude-origin of atmospheric rivers and their implications for East Asian monsoon onset” Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (2019).

Mitchell, J.L., T. Birner, G. Lapeyre, N. Nakamura, P. Read, G. Riviere, A. Sanchez-Lavega, and G.K. Vallis “Terrestrial planetary atmospheres”, in “Zonal Jets”, eds. B. Galperin and P. Read, Cambridge University Press (2019).

Parish, H.F. and Mitchell, J.L. “Simulating Venus’ Cloud Level Dynamics Using a Middle Atmosphere General Circulation Model”, submitted to ApJ (2019).

Faulk, S., Mitchell, J.L. and Moon, S. “Extreme methane rainstorms and climatic control of the alluvial fan distribution on Titan” Nature Geosciences, 10(11), 827 (2017).

Faulk, S., Mitchell, J.L. and Bordoni, S. “Effects of Rotation Rate and Seasonal Forcing on the ITCZ Extent in Planetary Atmospheres” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74(3), 665-678 (2017).

Lora, J.M., Mitchell, J.L., Risi, C. and Tripati, A.E “North Pacific atmospheric rivers and their influence on western North America at the Last Glacial Maximum” Geophysical Research Letters, 44(2), 1051-1059 (2017).

Mitchell, J.L., T. Birner, G. Lapeyre, N. Nakamura, P. Read, G. Riviere, A. Sanchez-Lavega, and G.K. Vallis “Terrestrial planetary atmospheres” to appear in “Zonal Jets”, eds. B. Galperin and P. Read, Cambridge University Press.

Lora, J.M., Mitchell, J.L., and Tripati, A.E. “Abrupt reorganization of North Pacific and western North American climate during the last deglaciation” Geophysical Research Letters, 43(22), 11,796-11,804, doi:10.1002/2016GL071244 (2016).

Ádámkovics, M. and Mitchell, J.L. “Search for methane isotope fractionation due to Rayleigh distillation on Titan” Icarus, 275, 232-238 (2016).

dias Pinto, J.R and Mitchell, J.L. “Wave-mean Flow Interactions and the Maintenance of Superrotation in a Terrestrial Atmosphere” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73(8), 3181-3196 (2016).

Mitchell, J.L. and Lora, J.M. “The climate of Titan”, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 44, 353-380 (2016).

Lora, J.M. and Mitchell, J.L. “Titan’s asymmetric lake distribution mediated by methane transport due to atmospheric eddies” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, is. 15, 6213-6220 (2015).

Ádámkovics, M., Mitchell, J.L. et al. “Meridional variation in tropospheric methane on Titan observed with AO spectroscopy at Keck and VLT” Icarus, 270, 376-388, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.05.023 (2015)

Wang, P. and Mitchell, J.L. “Planetary ageostrophic instability leads to superrotation” Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (2014) PDF

Mitchell, J.L., Vallis, G.K., and Potter, S.F. “Effects of a seasonal cycle on superrotation in planetary atmospheres” , Astrophysical Journal, 787, 1, 23 (2014). PDF

Dias Pinto, J.R. and Mitchell, J.L. “Atmospheric superrotation in an idealized GCM: parameter dependence of the eddy response”, Icarus, 238, 93 (2014). PDF

Tripati, A.K., Salany, S., Pittmann, D., Eagle, R.A., Neelin, J.D., Eiler, J.M., Mitchell, J.L., & Beaufort, L. “Enhanced Tropical Warming and Entrainment Explain Glacial to Recent Changes in Snowlines and Tropospheric Structure over the West Pacific Warm Pool” Nature Geoscience, 7, 3, 205 (2014). PDF

Potter, S.F., Vallis, G.K. and Mitchell, J.L. “Spontaneous superrotation and the role of Kelvin wave-like variability in an idealized dry GCM”  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 2, 596 (2014). PDF

Schubert, G. and Mitchell, J.L. “Planetary Atmospheres as Heat Engines” to appear in Comparative Climatology on Terrestrial Planets, Arizona Press (2013).

Griffith, C.A., Mitchell, J.L., Lavvas, P. and Tobie, G. “Titan’s Evolving Climate” to appear in Comparative Climatology on Terrestrial Planets, Arizona Press (2013).

Eagle, R.A., Risi, C., Mitchell, J.L. Eiler, J.M., Seibt, U., Neelin, J.D., Li, G., and Tripati, A.K. “High regional climate sensitivity over continental China inferred from glacial-recent changes in temperature and the hydrologic cycle” PNAS, 110, 8813 (2013). PDF

Hayes, A.G., Lorenz, R.D., Donelan, M.A., Schneider, T., Lamb, M.P., Fischer, W.W., Mitchell, J.L., Manga, M., Lunine, J.I., Graves, S.D., Tolman, H.L., Encrenaz, P., Aharonson, O. and the Cassini RADAR Team “Wind driven capillary-gravity waves on Titan's Lakes: Hard to Detect or Non-Existent?” Icarus, 225, 403 (2013). PDF

Mitchell, J.L. “Titan’s transport-driven methane cycle” Astrophysical Journal Letters, 756, L26 (2012). PDF

Lorenz, R.D., Newman, C.E., Tokano, T., Mitchell, J.L., Charnay, B., Lebonnois, S., and Achterberg, R. “Formulation of a Wind Specification for Titan Late Polar Summer Exploration” Planetary and Space Science, 70, 73-83 (2012). PDF

Mitchell, J.L., Ádámkovics, M., Caballero, R. & Turtle, E. “Locally enhanced precipitation organized by planetary-scale waves on Titan”, Nature Geosciences, 4, 589-592, doi:10.1038/ngeo1219 (2011). PDF Supplementary Information.

Tripati, A.K., Salany, S., Pittmann, D., Eagle, R.A., Neelin, J.D., Eiler, J.M., Mitchell, J.L., & Beaufort, L. “Enhanced Tropical Warming and Entrainment Explain Glacial to Recent Changes in Snowlines and Tropospheric Structure over the West Pacific Warm Pool” Science (2011).

Barnes, J.W., Lemke, L., Foch, R., McKay, C.P., Beyer, R.A., Radebaugh, J., Atkinson, D.H., Lorenz, R.D., Le Meuélic, S., Rodriguez, S., Gundlach, J., Giannini, F., Bain, S., Flasar, F.M., Hurford, T., Anderson, C.M., Merrison, J., Ádámkovics, M., Kattenhorn, S.A., Mitchell, J.L., Burr, D.M., Colaprete, A., Schaller, E., Friedson, A.J., Edgett, K.S., Coradini, A., Adriani, A., Sayanagi, K.M., Malaska, M.J., Morabito, D., Rey, K. “AVIATR – Aerial Vehicle for In-Situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance”, Experimental Astronomy (2011).

Mitchell, J.L. & Vallis, G.K. “The transition to superrotation in terrestrial atmospheres”,

J. Geophys. Res., 115, E12008, doi:10.1029/2010JE003587 (2010). PDF

Goldreich, P.M. & Mitchell, J.L. “Elastic ice shells of synchronous moons: Implications for

cracks on Europa and non-synchronous rotation of Titan”, Icarus 209:631-638 (2010). PDF

Youdin, A. & Mitchell, J. L. “The Mechanical Greenhouse:  Burial of heat by turbulence in hot Jupiter atmospheres”, ApJ 721:1112-1126 (2010). PDF

Spiegel, D.S., Raymond, S.N., Dressing, C.D., Scharf, C.A., Mitchell, J.L. “Generalized Milankovitch Cycles and Longterm Climatic Habitability”, ApJ 721:1308-1318 (2010). PDF

Mitchell, J. L., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Frierson, D. M. W., Caballero, R. “The impact of methane thermodynamics on seasonal convection and circulation in a model Titan atmosphere”, Icarus 203:250-264 (2009). PDF

Mitchell, J. L. “Coupling convectively driven atmospheric circulation to surface rotation:  Evidence for active methane weather in the observed spin rate drift of Titan” Astrophysical Journal 692:168-173 (2009).  PDF

Mitchell, J. L. “The drying of Titan’s dunes:  Titan’s methane hydrology and it’s impact on atmospheric circulation” J. Geophys. Res., 113, E08015, doi:10.1029/2007JE003017 (2008).  PDF

Mitchell, J. L., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Frierson, D. M. W., Caballero, R. “The Dynamics Behind Titan’s Methane Clouds” PNAS vol. 103, no. 49, pp. 18421-18426 (2006).  PDF link to supporting document

Caballero, R., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Mitchell, J. L. “Axisymmetric, nearly inviscid circulations in non-condensing radiative-convective atmospheres”, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,134:1269-1285 (2008). PDF

Mitchell, J. L., Keeton, C. R., Frieman, J. A., Sheth, R. K. “Improved Cosmological Constraints from Gravitational Lens Statistics” ApJ 622:81-98 (2005). PDF

Rogers, W. F., Georgiev, G., Neyens, G., Borremans, D., Coulier, N., Coussement, R., Davies, A. D., Mitchell, J. L., Teughels, S., Brown, B. A., Mantica, P. F. “Ground-state magnetic moment of the T=1 nucleus 32 Cl using on-line beta-NMR spectroscopy” Phys. Rev. C. 62:044312 (2000). PDF

Thesis:

“The climate dynamics of Titan”  PDF

Public policy:

Silberglitt, R. S. and Mitchell, J. L. “Industrial Materials for the Futures (IMF) R&D Priorities” DB-364-NREL RAND (2001).

Perry, W., Button, R. W., Bracken, J., Sullivan, T., Mitchell, J. L. “Measures of Effectiveness for the Information-Age Navy” RAND (2001).

Non academic:

Mitchell, J.L., a review of Planetary Climates by Andrew Ingersoll, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, vol. 34, no. 4 (2014).