The morphogenesis of bands and zonal winds in the atmospheres on the giant outer planets

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5273, 1996, Pages 335-337

  Cho, James Y K ^a   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0030012565     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5273.335     Document Type: Article

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21. This work is supported by NSF. The computations were performed on the Cray C90 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. We are grateful to M. Allison for thoughtful suggestions on the manuscript and to A. Simon and R. Beebe for the zonal wind data in Fig. 2.