Potential vorticity and layer thickness variations in the flow around Jupiter's Great Red SPOT and White Oval BC

Details Potential vorticity and layer thickness variations in the flow around Jupiter's Great Red SPOT and White Oval BC Potential vorticity and layer thickness variations in the flow around Jupiter's Great Red SPOT and White Oval BC

Apr 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988jats...45.1380d&link_type=abstract

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (ISSN 0022-4928), vol. 45, April 15, 1988, p. 1380-1396.

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Atmospheric Circulation, Jupiter Atmosphere, Vorticity, Atmospheric Stratification, Error Analysis, Flow Velocity, Jupiter Red Spot, Trajectory Analysis, Voyager Project, Jupiter, Great Red Spot, Layers, Thickness, Flow, Latitude, Trajectory, Models, Velocity, Motion, Topography, Atmosphere, Spacecraft Observations, Voyager 2 Mission, Analysis, Calculations, Parameters, Imagery, Wakes, Rotation, Fluids, Structure

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Using Voyager images, layer thickness variations in the flow around Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) and White Oval BC were investigated by treating potential vorticity as a conserved tracer. Fluid trajectories around the GRS and the White Oval BC were calculated assuming the flow to be frictionless, adiabatic, hydrostatic, and steady in the reference frame of the vortex. The data obtained constitute a useful diagnostic which will help to differentiate between models of Jovian vortices. Implications of the observations were studied in the context of a one-layer quasi-geostrophic model in which a thin upper weather layer, which contains the vortex, is supported hydrostatically by a much deeper lower layer.

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