Stable, baroclinic eddies on Jupiter and Saturn - A laboratory analog and some observational tests

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Mar 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986icar...65..304r&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 65, Feb.-Mar. 1986, p. 304-334.

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

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Atmospheric Circulation, Baroclinic Instability, Jupiter Atmosphere, Saturn Atmosphere, Vortices, Fluid Dynamics, Jupiter Red Spot, Scaling, Steady Flow, Vorticity, Planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Eddies, Baroclinity, Analogs, Experiments, Laboratory Studies, Thermal Effects, Convection, Fluid, Flow, Dynamics, Heating, Cooling, Great Red Spot, White Ovals, Atmosphere, Comparisons, Structure, Dissipation, Features, Surface

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Observations of Jupiter and Saturn long-lived eddies, such as Jupiter's Great Red Spot and White Ovals, are presently compared with laboratory experiments and corresponding numerical simulations for free thermal convection in a rotating fluid that is subject to horizontal differential heating and cooling. Difficulties in determining the essential processes maintaining and dissipating stable eddies, on the basis of global energy budget studies, are discussed; such difficulties do not arise in considerations of the flow's potential vorticity budget. On Jupiter, diabatically forced and transient eddy-driven flows primarily differ in the implied role of transient eddies in transporting potential vorticity across closed geostrophic streamlines in the time mean.

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