A general circulation model for Jupiter's atmosphere

Details A general circulation model for Jupiter's atmosphere A general circulation model for Jupiter's atmosphere

Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1388y&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1388

Computer Science

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We have extended the model to a global domain and are optimizing it for use on two supercomputing clusters available in Oxford. With these developments we are now in a position to include moist convection within the global model, using a scheme based on the concept of the atmosphere behaving as a heat engine [4]. In the model's current configuration jet structures do not form spontaneously when the zonal velocity damping is turned off. With moist convection as a source of small-scale energy injection into the atmosphere, however, and using the supercomputing cluster to resolve the flow at a higher resolution than Jupiter's deformation radius, we expect that jets should form spontaneously. We shall present our progress towards resolving the question of whether moist convection is sufficient to drive the formation and maintenance of jets in Jupiter's atmosphere.

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