Gravitational tidal waves in Titan's upper atmosphere

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006icar..182..251s&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 1, p. 251-258.

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Tidal waves driven by Titan's orbital eccentricity through the time-dependent component of Saturn's gravitational potential attain nonlinear, saturation amplitudes (|T|>10 K, |u|>20 ms, and |w|>5 cms) in the upper atmosphere (⩾500 km) due to the approximate exponential growth as the inverse square root of pressure. The gravitational tides, with vertical wavelengths of ˜100 150 km above 500 km altitude, carry energy fluxes sufficient in magnitude to affect the energy balance of the upper atmosphere with heating rates ⩾10 ergcms in the altitude range of 500 900 km.

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