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Scientific paper
Oct 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986joat.conf..163e&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Goddard Inst. for Space Studies The Jovian Atmospheres p 163-174 (SEE N87-17598 09-91)
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Adiabatic Flow, Atmospheric Temperature, Baroclinic Waves, Convective Flow, Planetary Atmospheres, Angular Momentum, Centrifuging, Earth Atmosphere, Gravitational Effects
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Local convection in planetary atmospheres is generally considered to result from the action of gravity on small regions of anomalous density. That in rotating baroclinic fluids the total potential energy for small scale convection contains a centrifugal as well as a gravitational contribution is shown. Convective adjustment in such an atmosphere results in the establishment of near adiabatic lapse rates of temperature along suitably defined surfaces of constant angular momentum, rather than in the vertical. This leads in general to sub-adiabatic vertical lapse rates. That such an adjustment actually occurs in the earth's atmosphere is shown by example and the magnitude of the effect for several other planetary atmospheres is estimated.
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