Jupiter's and Saturn's convectively driven banded jets in the laboratory

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Read, P L ^a   Yamazaki, Y H ^a   Lewis, S R ^a   Williams, P D ^a   Miki Yamazaki, K ^a   Sommeria, J ^b   Didelle, H ^b   Fincham, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

0343 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Planetary atmospheres (5405, 5407, 5409, 5704, 5705, 5707); 3314 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Convective processes; 4528 Oceanography: Physical: Fronts and jets; 5707 Planetology: Fluid Planets: Atmospheres structures and dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLOUDS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITAL LABORATORIES; PLANETS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BANDED PATTERNS; DEEP CONVECTION; JUPITER; SATURN; ZONATION;

JETS;

JUPITER; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SATURN;

EID: 14044253372     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020106     Document Type: Article

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