Scaling laws for convection and jet speeds in the giant planets

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1258-1273

  Showman, Adam P ^a,b   Kaspi, Yohai ^c   Flierl, Glenn R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Dynamics; Jupiter; Neptune; Saturn; Uranus

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151476741     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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