Zonal flow driven by deep convection in the major planets

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Jul 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.2553c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 13, p. 2553-2556

Physics

38

Planetology: Fluid Planets: Atmospheres-Structure And Dynamics, Planetology: Fluid Planets: Interiors, Planetology: Solar System Objects: Jupiter

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The cause of the fast zonal winds on the large gas planets is disputed. To investigate their possible origin by convection in the planets' molecular hydrogen layer, I study simple numerical models of thermal convection in a rotating sphere at low Ekman numbers for Rayleigh numbers up to 100 times critical. With stress-free boundaries and high Rayleigh number it is possible to reproduce the observed magnitudes of the zonal and non-zonal flow components at the surfaces of Jupiter and Saturn. While only three flow bands are found for a thick convecting shell, the number increases to seven for a shell with an inner-to-outer radius of 0.6.

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