Effects of compressibility on driving zonal flow in gas giants
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In density-stratified convection, shallower and lighter fluid must overturn faster to respond to the momentum of fluid parcels coming from deeper thicker layers, leading to a gradual increase in mean velocity with increasing radius.
“In density-stratified convection, shallower and lighter fluid must overturn faster to respond to the momentum of fluid parcels coming from deeper thicker layers. This leads to a gradual increase in the mean velocity with increasing radius”
From Deep rotating convection generates the polar hexagon on Saturn (2020) · cites this paper as [31]
Section 3.3.1 (p. 7) reports that convective flow amplitude increases with radius as background density falls, and §4.2 (p. 14) reports a shorter turnover timescale near the surface. These passages support faster shallower convection, but they do not describe it as a response to momentum from parcels in deeper layers or establish an increase in mean velocity specifically. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe Rossby number changes with depth; deeper layers with smaller Rossby number promote more coherent vortices and jets, while shallower layers with larger Rossby number favor more incoherent convection.
“This leads to a situation where deeper layers with smaller Rossby number promote more coherent vortices and jets, while shallower layers with larger Rossby number favor more incoherent convection [31].”
From Deep rotating convection generates the polar hexagon on Saturn (2020) · cites this paper as [31]
Section 3.3.1 (p. 7) reports weaker, larger-scale convection at depth and stronger, smaller-scale convection outward. Section 4.2 (pp. 13–14) describes correlated, tilted flow in the interior but decorrelated, more radially oriented motion near the outer boundary; the Conclusion (p. 15) links that correlation to maintaining jets. The paper does not explicitly establish the claimed depth-dependent Rossby numbers or attribute the contrast in flow coherence to smaller versus larger Rossby numbers, and the reported outer-layer decorrelation is conditional on the simulation regime. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Williams, G.P., 1978. Planetary circulations. I - Barotropic representation of Jovian and terrestrial turbulence. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 35, 13991426.
- Authors
- Gastine, T., & Wicht, J.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Gastine, T.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Icarus
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 219
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 428-442
- ISSN
- 0019-1035 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993932223
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 57
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- FWCI
- 7.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Icarus (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Keywords
- zonal flows, gas giants, compressible convection, anelastic approximation, density stratification, zonal jets, Reynolds stress, Rayleigh number, supercriticality, Boussinesq approximation, scaling laws
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