Simulations of superrotation on slowly rotating planets: Sensitivity to rotation and initial condition

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作者
DelGenio, AD [1 ]
Zhou, W [1 ]
机构
[1] SCI SYST & APPLICAT INC,NEW YORK,NY 10025
基金
美国国家航空航天局;
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10.1006/icar.1996.0054
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We use a simplified terrestrial general circulation model as a nonlinear process model to investigate factors that influence the extent of equatorial superrotation in statically stable atmospheres on slowly rotating planets such as Titan and Venus, The possibility of multiple equilibria is tested by running the same model to equilibrium from vastly different initial conditions, The final state is effectively independent of initial state, reinforcing the impression that equatorial superrotation is inevitable on slowly rotating planets with stable radiative equilibrium structures, Of particular interest is the fact that at Titan rotation, the model equilibrates with strong prograde winds even when initialized with strong retrograde winds, This suggests that reliable remote sensing inferences of latitudinal temperature gradients on Titan can unambiguously be interpreted as evidence for superrotation, We also demonstrate for the first time that significant equatorial superrotation can be produced at Venus' rotation rate in such models, given sufficient numerical precision, The strength of superrotating zonal winds increases with rotation rate in the slowly rotating regime when other parameters are held fixed, However, the efficiency of superrotation relative to the angular momentum of an atmosphere corotating with the solid planet increases with decreasing rotation rate instead, because the Hadley cell strengthens and expands poleward, This allows for the formation of stronger high latitude jets, which ultimately serve as the source for equatorial superrotation via barotropic instability, Estimates of relevant parameter settings for Triton and Pluto tentatively imply that their atmospheres may marginally be in the superrotating regime, but only if temperature decreases with height near the surface. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.
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页码:332 / 343
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