Computer Science
Scientific paper
Mar 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995rasc...30..413a&link_type=abstract
Radio Science (ISSN 0048-6604), vol. 30, no. 2, p. 413-422
Computer Science
Doppler Radar, Galileo Probe, Jupiter Atmosphere, Micrometeorology, Planetary Meteorology, Radar Tracking, Wind (Meteorology), Wind Profiles, Wind Shear, Wind Velocity Measurement, Algorithms, Atmospheric Turbulence, Computerized Simulation, Doppler Effect, Least Squares Method, Telemetry
Scientific paper
The algorithm developed to recover the zonal (east-west) wind profile at Jupiter by Doppler tracking of the Galileo probe is well established in theory and verified by computer simulation. We extend the Doppler wind recovery algorithm to include detection and extraction of microscale wind structure. When the probe encounters regions of high wind shear, turbulence, atmospheric waves, or nonsteady aerodynamics (buffeting) a rapidly varying component is introduced into the probe telemetry Doppler data. These effects can be isolated by their respective Doppler signatures. Analysis of residuals allows fine structure in the wind profile to be located and retrieved. The overall wind recovery is a three-step process: (1) The large-scale zonal wind profile is recovered by converting the probe telemetry frequency residuals (as caused by the Doppler effect) to a velocity and back-projecting it into the local horizontal east-west direction at the probe location. The zonal winds are derived from the velocity residuals by a least squares algorithm. (2) Regions of high zonal wind shear are recovered numerically relative to the large-scale wind structure and serve as a correction to the previously derived large-scale profile. (3) The probe trajectory is updated to reflect both the large- and small-scale wind structure, and the large-scale wind profile is recalculated. The Galileo Doppler wind experiment described previously and the wind microstructure retrieval algorithm outlined here are the only reasonable means by which the vertical profile of the zonal winds at Jupiter can be directly sampled.
Atkinson David H.
Pollack James B.
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