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contributor authorSchubert, Gerald
contributor authorYoung, Richard E.
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:15:25Z
date available2017-06-09T14:15:25Z
date copyright1970/07/01
date issued1970
identifier issn0022-4928
identifier otherams-15804.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4151517
description abstractIt has been proposed that the observed 4-day retrograde rotation of the Venus atmosphere is a zonal motion of at least the upper atmosphere driven by periodic solar thermal forcing. We have assessed the relative importance of periodic thermal forcing for the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Periodic thermal forcing is likely to play a significant role only in the dynamics of the Venus atmosphere, principally because of the favorable overhead speed of the sun; this is 3 m sec?1, at least two orders of magnitude slower than the overhead solar speeds for the other planets. For a simplified channel flow problem we have examined the detailed mechanisms by which periodic induced circulations transport the momentum necessary to support a mean shear.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleThe 4-Day Venus Circulation Driven by Periodic Thermal Forcing
typeJournal Paper
journal volume27
journal issue4
journal titleJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0469(1970)027<0523:TDVCDB>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage523
journal lastpage528
treeJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;1970:;Volume( 027 ):;issue: 004
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