Strong zonal winds from thermal convection in a rotating spherical shell

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2557-2559

  Aurnou, Jonathan M ^a   Olson, Peter L ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; PLANETS; WIND EFFECTS; HEAT CONVECTION; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; KINETICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

SPHERICAL SHELLS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

PLANETARY SURFACE; ROTATING FLUID; THERMAL CONVECTION; WIND;

EQUATORIAL REGIONS; HIGH-RAYLEIGH-NUMBER CONVECTION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; STRESS-FREE BOUNDARIES; STRONG CONVECTIONS; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; TOTAL KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 0035391013     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012474     Document Type: Article

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