Barotropic and baroclinic instabilities in jupiter's zonal flow

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Nov 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978phdt.........9p&link_type=abstract

Ph.D. Thesis California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena.

Physics

Baroclinity, Barotropic Flow, Boundary Layer Stability, Jupiter Atmosphere, Zonal Flow (Meteorology), Air Flow, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Atmospheric Pressure, Barotropism

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The barotropic and baroclinic stability of Jupiter's zonal jets is investigated using a two-layer quasi-geostrophic model. Each layer is of constant density, with the upper layer representing the cloudy levels of Jupiter's atmosphere above approximately 5 bars containing the zonal jets u bar(y), and a much deeper lower layer in which u bar = 0. Since Jupiter's vertical structure associated with the zonal jets is unknown at these levels, this model attempts to include the effects of baroclinicity and deep lower layer inertia with as few free vertical-structure parameters as possible, (i.e., the upper layer Rossby radius of deformation Lr and the ratio of the upper layer to lower layer thickness delta).

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