Physics
Scientific paper
May 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007jgrd..11209112t&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue D9, CiteID D09112
Physics
6
Atmospheric Processes: Planetary Meteorology (5445, 5739), Atmospheric Processes: General Circulation (1223), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Planetary Atmospheres (5210, 5405, 5704)
Scientific paper
A nonlinear dynamical model on the sphere has been numerically integrated to investigate a generation mechanism of the Venus atmospheric superrotation by the thermal tides. By using the solar heating exciting the diurnal and semidiurnal tides, the atmospheric superrotation extending from the ground to 80 km is generated. The vertical distributions of the mean zonal flow obtained in our experiments are similar to the observations. Velocity of the mean zonal wind on the equator reaches about 60-100 m s-1 near the cloud top level. A linear theory suggests that the atmospheric superrotation obtained in the present study is generated and maintained by the momentum transport associated with the thermal tides. Namely, the downward transport of zonal momentum that is associated with the downward propagating semidiurnal tide excited in the cloud layer induces the mean zonal flow opposite to the Venus rotation in the lowest layer adjacent to the ground. Surface friction acting on this counter flow provides the atmosphere with the net angular momentum from the solid part of Venus. It is examined how the atmospheric superrotation depends on vertical eddy viscosity and Newtonian cooling. The result shows that magnitude of the atmospheric superrotation is not so sensitive to vertical eddy viscosity but is strongly influenced by Newtonian cooling.
Matsuda Yuichi
Takagi Masahiro
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