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Emergence of intense jets and Jupiter Great Red Spot as maximum entropy structures | | F. Bouchet
; J. Sommeria
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27 Mar 2000 | | Subject: | Fluid Dynamics; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics; Statistical Mechanics | physics.flu-dyn cond-mat.stat-mech physics.ao-ph | | Abstract: | We explain the emergence and robustness of intense jets in highly turbulent planetary atmospheres, like on Jupiter, by a general approach of statistical mechanics of potential vorticity patches. The idea is that potential vorticity mixing leads to the formation of a steady organized coarse grained flow, corresponding to the statistical equilibrium state. Our starting point is the quasi-geostrophic 1-1/2 layer model, and we consider the relevant limit of a small Rossby radius of deformation. Then narrow jets are obtained, scaling like the Rossby radius of deformation. These jets can be either zonal, or closed into a ring bounding a vortex. Taking into account the effect of the beta effect and a sublayer deep shear flow, we predict an organization of the turbulent atmospheric layer into an oval-shaped vortex amidst a background shear. Such an isolated vortex is centered over an extremum of the equivalent topography (determined by the deep shear flow and beta-effect). This prediction is in agreement with analysis of wind data in major Jovian vortices (Great Red Spot and Oval BC). | | Source: | arXiv, physics/0003079 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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