Modeling frontal cloudiness in the atmospheres of giant planets. III - Saturn

Details Modeling frontal cloudiness in the atmospheres of giant planets. III - Saturn Modeling frontal cloudiness in the atmospheres of giant planets. III - Saturn

Apr 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993kfnt....9...37i&link_type=abstract

Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel (ISSN 0233-7665), vol. 9, no. 2, p. 37-45.

Physics

Atmospheric Models, Gas Giant Planets, Planetary Meteorology, Saturn Atmosphere, Stratus Clouds, Ammonia, Atmospheric Composition, Cloud Physics, Water

Scientific paper

A numerical experiment based on the technique proposed by the authors for modelling frontal multicomponent stratiform clouds was carried out to investigate the dependence of Saturn's cloud macrostructure parameters on the atmospheric factors. A six-factor matrix design was used, with the following optimization parameters to be investigated: the integral liquid water and ammonia contents, cloud amount, and parameters characterizing the initial moment of cloud formation. The atmospheric variable factors were the wind velocity horizontal components, the vertical ascent velocity of atmospheric masses, the eddy diffusion coefficient, and the abundance of condensing constituents (water and ammonia). It is concluded that the eddy diffusion coefficient and the wind velocity in Saturn's atmosphere do not exceed 100 sq m/s and several tens of m/s, respectively.

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