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Thanks Marc, the EZ region at Saturn experiences some of the strongest wind velocities in our Solar System approaching the speed of sound. As the seasons change and the ring shadow moves often storms erupt from the regions that had previously been shaded by the rings. Saturn zonal wind profiles show that small changes in latitude can have large differences in the zonal wind velocity, such is the case with the 2010 GWS AV which I have tracked since it formed. It is drifting south and its drift rate has reduced from approx -1.5 degrees/day to only -0.5 degrees/day during this apparition.
Thanks very much Mike, Saturn is my specialty, obsession really and caressing small scale discrete detail out of good data is one of life's great pleasures.
Thanks very much David and Pete.
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