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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and other vortices.
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A theoretical explanation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) as the self-organization of vorticity in turbulence is presented. A number of properties of the GRS and other Jovian vortices that are unambiguous from the data are listed. The simplest possible model that explains these properties one at a time rather than in a difficult all-encompassing planetary global circulation model is presented. It is shown that Jovian vortices reflect the behavior of quasi-geostrophic (QG) vortices embedded in an east-west wind with bands of uniform potential vorticity. It is argued that most of the properties of the Jovian vortices can be easily explained and understood with QG theory. Many of the signatures of QG vortices are apparent on Voyager images. In numerical and laboratory experiments, QG vortices relax to approximately steady states like the Jovian vortices, rather than oscillating or rotating Kida ellipses.
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“Coherent vortices preferentially exist in regions where absolute vorticity or potential vorticity gradients vanish, as they can then arise spontaneously in barotropic or quasigeostrophic flows and remain stable (e.g., McWilliams 1984;Marcus 1988Marcus , 1993)).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Marcus, P. S.
- Corresponding author
- Marcus, Philip S.
- ORCID
- Marcus, Philip S.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1993-09
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 523-569
- ISSN
- 0066-4146 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4282
- OpenAlex
- W2162315233
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 6.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Keywords
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot, potential vorticity, turbulent flow, steady state
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