Seasonality and differential mixing of trace species by waves in Titan's stratosphere

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Oct 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000dps....32.1805l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #32, #18.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1026

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Numerical modeling of Titan by Hourdin et al. (1995, Icarus 117, p. 358) has suggested that the mean zonal circulation at 1 mb may be barotropically unstable in the vicinity of the strong jets that exist at high latitudes. In support of the Gierasch mechanism as a driver for superrotation, their results indicate that large scale barotropic eddies may transport angular momentum equatorward from high latitudes, thereby closing the angular momentum budget. We have used a 2-dimensional, longitude-latitude model of the shallow-water equations on the sphere to investigate the role of the transient eddies on the transport of trace chemical species. Our results suggest that the eddies are large-scale atmospheric waves and that the transport of trace species is strongly latitude-dependent. Latitudinal mixing is small on the poleward edges of the jets, but strong on the unstable, equatorward edges. The effect of a simple coupling of trace species and dynamics in the model by parameterizing the altitude distribution of a trace species and the seasonal variations of the meridional circulation will be discussed.

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