Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987natur.328..510g&link_type=abstract
Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 328, Aug. 6, 1987, p. 510-512.
Physics
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Atmospheric Circulation, Venus Atmosphere, Wave Propagation, Atmospheric Temperature, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Spaceborne Experiments, Vertical Distribution, Wave Fronts, Venus, Atmosphere, Turbulence, Balloons, Spacecraft Observations, Amplitude, Motion, Clouds, Altitude, Aphrodite Terra, Patterns, Waves, Latitude, Rotation, Circulation, Meteorology, Flow, Zones, Temperature, Resonance, Momentum, Venera Missions
Scientific paper
The recent Soviet/French instrumented balloon experiments in the Venus atmosphere have shown that turbulent vertical motions with amplitudes of several metres per second exist within the principal cloud deck at about 50 km elevation. The motions are particularly intense over the Aphrodite mountains. The author points out that a patch of turbulence stationary over a surface feature can generate a wake-like pattern of horizontally propagating waves which can explain the general visual appearance of Venus, and which can produce a momentum exchange from mid-latitudes to low latitudes, helping to maintain the Venus atmospheric rotation.
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