Vortex circulation on Venus: Dynamical similarities with terrestrial hurricanes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Limaye, Sanjay S ^a   Kossin, James P ^a   Rozoff, Christopher ^a   Piccioni, Giuseppe ^b   Titov, Dmitry V ^c   Markiewicz, Wojciech J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROTROPIC MODELS; DYNAMICAL SIMILARITY; PIONEER VENUS ORBITERS; SHAPE FEATURES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUPER ROTATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VENUS EXPRESS; VORTEX CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HURRICANE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VENUS;

EID: 66149161984     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036093     Document Type: Article

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