Abstract: The vertical of Jupiter's atmosphere is probed and isolated by evaluating the stability characteristics of planetary vortices over a wide parameter range. The resulting structures lead to simulating the genesis of single ...

Abstract: The possibility that the tropopause could be lower during an ice-age cooling leads to an examination of the general sensitivity of global circulations to the tropopause height by altering a constant stratospheric temperature ...

Abstract: Altering the tropospheric static stability changes the nature of the equatorial superrotation associated with unstable, low-latitude, westerly jets, according to calculations with a dry, global, multilevel, spectral, ...

Abstract: To extend studies of the dynamics of thin atmospheric layers, the generation and equilibration of multiple anticyclonic vortex sets associated with long solitary baroclinic Rossby waves are examined numerically using a ...

Abstract: Baroclinically unstable zones in midlatitudes normally produce medium-scale planetary waves that propagate toward the equator where they generate easterlies while transferring westerly momentum poleward, so that the jet ...

Abstract: Studies of the dynamical response of thin atmospheric layers overlying thick envelopes are extended to examine how multiple jets, such as those seen on Jupiter and Saturn, can be generated and maintained. The jets are ...