Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Nov 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar..100..245w&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 100, no. 1, p. 245-259.
Statistics
Computation
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Atmospheric Circulation, Jupiter Atmosphere, Stratosphere, Aerosols, Atmospheric Temperature, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dynamic Models, Gravity Waves, Infrared Radiation, Meridional Flow, Radiative Heat Transfer, Stream Functions (Fluids), Thermal Radiation, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft
Scientific paper
An attempt is made to diagnose the annual-average mean meridional residual Jovian large-scale stratospheric circulation from observations of the temperature and reflected sunlight that reveal the morphology of the aerosol heating. The annual mean solar heating, total radiative flux divergence, mass stream function, and Eliassen-Palm flux divergence are shown. The stratospheric radiative flux divergence is dominated the high latitudes by aerosol absorption. Between the 270 and 100 mbar pressure levels, where there is no aerosol heating in the model, the structure of the circulation at low- to midlatitudes is governed by the meridional variation of infrared cooling in association with the variation of zonal mean temperatures observed by IRIS. The principal features of the vertical velocity profile found by Gierasch et al. (1986) are recovered in the present calculation.
Appleby John F.
Friedson Andrew James
West Robert A.
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