Scaling laws for convection and jet speeds in the giant planets

Three dimensional studies of convection in deep spherical shells have been used to test the hypothesis that the strong jet streams on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune result from convection throughout the molecular envelopes. Due to computational limitations, these simulations must be performed...

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Main Authors: Showman, Adam P. (Author), Kaspi, Yohai (Author), Flierl, Glenn Richard (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2015-10-13T18:14:42Z.
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