Equatorial superrotation on tidally locked exoplanets

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 738, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Showman, Adam P ^a,b   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrodynamics; methods: analytical; methods: numerical; planets and satellites: atmospheres; planets and satellites: individual (HD 189733b); waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052781588     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/738/1/71     Document Type: Article

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