The soliton model for the Great Red SPOT and other large vortices in planetary atmospheres

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Aug 1984

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(Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, vol. 10, July 1984, p. 530-541) Soviet Astronomy Letters (ISSN 0360-0327), vol. 10, July-Aug

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Anticyclones, Gas Giant Planets, Jupiter Red Spot, Solitary Waves, Vortices, Atmospheric Circulation, Cyclones, Jupiter Atmosphere, Saturn Atmosphere, Three Dimensional Models, Two Dimensional Models

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Laboratory experiments support a model interpreting the largest anticyclonic vortices in the atmospheres of the giant planets (especially Jupiter's Great Red Spot) as Rossby solitons. Cyclonic vortices, however, are not solitons; they can persist only through powerful pumping by zonal flows with a steep meridional gradient. A three-dimensional soliton model is proposed for the GRS; unlike the former two-dimensional model it quantitatively fits the observations. The vortex drift direction on Jupiter and Saturn is discussed.

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