Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006dps....38.1903d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #19.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.515
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
We describe the new Venus EPIC model, including its hybrid isentropic/terrain-following vertical coordinate, and explore how topography affects atmospheric spinup from rest. We force the model with the Newtonian cooling used by Lee, Lewis, and Read (2005, Adv. Space Res. 36, 2142-2145) to generate a substantial superrotation in a Venus model without topography, achieving approximately half the desired wind speed. With topography, the Eliassen-Palm flux divergence, a diagnostic tool that maps where eddies have a net effect on the zonal wind, is more steady in time and strongly enhanced at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere by the presence of Ishtar Terra, compared to the case of no topography. In general, the mountains cause the model to achieve a dynamical steady state in a matter of years rather than decades, the northern polar jet to be weaker than its southern counterpart, and the overall magnitude of superrotation to be weaker. Since adding mountains has moved the model superrotation farther below the target, the next step will be to employ more realistic forcing, with attention paid to exactly how the mountains shape the eddy structure, which in turn drives the model's superrotation.
This research is funded by the NSF Planetary Astronomy Program and the NASA Planetary Atmospheres Program.
Dowling Timothy E.
Herrnstein Aaron
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