Interaction of Saturn’s Hexagon With Convective Storms

This work has been supported by the Spanish project AYA2015-65041-P and PID2019-109467GB444 I00 (MINECO/FEDER, UE) and Grupos Gobierno Vasco IT1366-19. EGM is Serra Hunter Fellow atUPC. This work has used data acquired from the NASA/ESA HST Space Telescope, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These HST observations are associated with program GO/DD 15262. EGM, MS, KAV and ASL thankfully acknowledge the computer resources at Mare Nostrum and the technical support provided by Barcelona Supercomputing Center (AECT-2019-2-0006). We thank all the observers who have contributed with their images to the monitoring of the atmospheric activity on Saturn during the years 2019 and 2020 and whose list and images can be found in the ALPO452 Japan and PVOL databases. Part of the amateur observations analyzed were obtained through a collaboration with Europlanet 2024 RI. Europlanet 2024 RI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 871149.