Moist convection and the abundance of water in the troposphere of Jupiter

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Mar 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987icar...69..566l&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 69, March 1987, p. 566-570. NASA-supported research.

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Atmospheric Models, Atmospheric Moisture, Convection Currents, Jupiter Atmosphere, Troposphere, Atmospheric Chemistry, Oxygen, Solar Atmosphere, Stellar Composition, Jupiter, Convection, Water, Abundance, Troposphere, Atmosphere, Models, Depletion, Oxygen, Diagrams, Plumes, Calculations, Parameters, Spectra, Desiccation, Chemistry, Water Vapor, Ammonia, Altitude

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A semiquantitative model is proposed for the narrow, moist convective plumes of the Jupiter troposphere which appears capable of explaining the apparent H2O vapor depletion in the 5-micron window without requiring a global depletion of oxygen from solar abundance. Chemical dessication is held to be unlikely, in virtue of its requirement for the many-fold enhancement of ammonia. Arguments based on mixing length theory are presented to justify a small filling factor, or ratio of the area occupied by updrafts to the total area.

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