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Formation of Jets by Baroclinic Instability on Gas Planet Atmospheres
The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 64, September 2007, pages 3177-3194
Yohai Kaspi & Glenn R. Flierl; yohai@mit.edu, glenn@lake.mit.edu
Animations:
Below are a few examples showing the evolution of the zonal velocity, beginning with a random potential vorticity perturbation , through baroclinic instability, and an inverse energy cascade resulting in stable baroclinic multiple zonal jets, as discussed in page 11.
Animation 1: An example of the evolution of the zonal velocity (eddy + induced zonal mean) in the top layer. The corresponding potential vorticity, streamfunction and velocity fields of both layers in the final statistical steady state for this run are shown as well.
Animation 2: Another example (high resolution) with more jets in the steady state.
Animation 3: Corresponding to snapshots given in Fig. 6 (run S5 - see Table1).
Animation 4: Corresponding to snapshots given in Fig. 7.
Animation 5: Corresponding to snapshots of different numbers of jets in steady state given in Fig. 9.
Animation 6: The Barotropic stability criterion Uyy/β variation in time for different runs. Corresponding to Fig. 13.