Mathematics
Scientific paper
Feb 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987icar...69..193l&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 69, Feb. 1987, p. 193-201.
Mathematics
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Atmospheric Circulation, Atmospheric Heating, Venus Clouds, Wind Velocity, Zonal Flow (Meteorology), Atmospheric Tides, Equatorial Atmosphere, Mathematical Models, Vortices, Venus, Winds, Clouds, Layers, Models, Equatorial Regions, Tidal Effects, Thermal Effects, Velocity, Circulation, Hypotheses, Parameters, Heating, Thickness, Shear, Amplitude, Calculations, Analysis
Scientific paper
A consequence of the presently hypothesized maintenance of the equatorial wind speed near the cloud top level of Venus by a balance between the semidiurnal tide's pumping and the Hadley circulation's vertical advection (both integrated across the thermal driving region) is that the maximum equatorial zonal wind speed is proportional to the product of the buoyancy frequency and the magnitude of the driving region's thickness. The proportionality constant is characterized as a weakly increasing function of the heating rate, and a decreasing function of the product of an inverse length, expressing the mean zonal wind shear, and the driving region thickness. For the class of solutions thus treated, there is a threshold heating rate value below which no equilibrium satisfies the prescribed balance.
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