The wind, temperature, and surface pressure on Pluto from a Pluto general circulation model

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1225z&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1225

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We use a Pluto general circulation model to predict for the first time the wind on Pluto and its global, largescale structure, as well as the temperature and surface pressure. We find that Pluto's atmosphere is dynamically active in the zonal (longitudinal) direction with high-speed, high-latitude jets that encircle the poles in gradient wind balance and in the same direction as Pluto's rotation. The meridional (latitudinal) and vertical winds do not show evidence for a Hadley cell (or other large-scale structure), due to the low altitude temperature inversion. The horizontal variation in surface pressure is a small fraction of the global mean surface pressure.

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