Turbulent convection in rapidly rotating spherical shells: A model for equatorial and high latitude jets on Jupiter and Saturn

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 540-557

  Heimpel, Moritz ^a   Aurnou, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; dynamics; Interiors; Jupiter; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847372477     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.10.023     Document Type: Article

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