Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
Oct 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986joat.conf..196r&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Goddard Inst. for Space Studies The Jovian Atmospheres p 196-197 (SEE N87-17598 09-91)
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
Atmospheric Circulation, Baroclinic Instability, Jupiter Atmosphere, Saturn Atmosphere, Vortices, Fluid Dynamics, Jupiter Red Spot, Scaling, Steady Flow, Vorticity
Scientific paper
Observations of Jupiter and Saturn long-lived eddies, such as Jupiter's Great Red Spot and White Ovals, are presently compared with laboratory experiments and corresponding numerical simulations for free thermal convection in a rotating fluid that is subject to horizontal differential heating and cooling. Difficulties in determining the essential processes maintaining and dissipating stable eddies, on the basis of global energy budget studies, are discussed; such difficulties do not arise in considerations of the flow's potential vorticity budget. On Jupiter, diabatically forced and transient eddy-driven flows primarily differ in the implied role of transient eddies in transporting potential vorticity across closed geostrophic streamlines in the time mean.
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