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Mar 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005icar..174..178l&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 174, Issue 1, p. 178-191.
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We have measured the internal velocity field in jovian synoptic-scale cyclones and anticyclones by tracking cloud elements in very high spatial resolution images obtained by the Voyager 1 and 2 (in 1979) and Galileo (1996 2000) spacecrafts. In total we have studied 24 different closed vortices (6 cyclones, 18 anticyclones) spanning a latitude range from ˜60° N to 60° S and with East West sizes larger than ˜2000 km. The tangential component of the velocity as a function of the distance to the vortex center and position angle is used to retrieve the vorticity field. We find that the velocity increases in all the vortices from a nearly quiescent center to a maximum at the vortex periphery, with a record of about 180 m s-1 for the GRS. The vorticity of cyclones and anticyclones increases in general toward their periphery with absolute values in the range from ˜2 14×10 s. There is a marked tendency to increase the vortices vorticity with their latitude location. However the vorticity does not depend on the vortex size, circulation sense, or ambient background meridional wind shear. The vortex Rossby number ranges from ˜0.2 to 0.5. A study of the interaction between the Great Red Spot with other vortices show that the GRS does not change its vorticity upon their absorption. The two White Ovals mergers showed contradictory results, with greater vorticity in the case of BE, but lower vorticity in the case of BA, although data are poorer for this last case. We present the case of a short lived but large coherent cyclone at -59° that was embedded in a weakly anticyclone wind shear domain. We show that jovian vortices do not follow the simple Kida vortex relationship between vorticity and aspect ratio as it has been previously suggested.
Legarreta Jon
Sanchez-Lavega Agustín.
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