TY - JOUR
T1 - Baroclinic modes in the atmosphere on Venus simulated by AFES
AU - Sugimoto, Norihiko
AU - Takagi, Masahiro
AU - Matsuda, Yoshihisa
AU - Takahashi, Yoshiyuki O.
AU - Ishiwatari, Masaki
AU - Hayashi, Yoshi Yuki
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - An atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) for Venus is being developed on the basis of AFES (AGCM For the Earth Simulator) in order to study atmospheric phenomena of Venus by the numerical simulation with high resolution. Super-rotation is assumed to exist at initial state and to be maintained by the relaxation forcing due to the meridional temperature gradient. In the time evolution of this setting, baroclinic modes grow in the cloud layer with small static stability. The structures of unstable modes are similar to those obtained in the linear stability analysis initially, but changed by the nonlinear interactions in the later stage. Meridional transport of momentum and heat by these unstable inodes is discussed.
AB - An atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) for Venus is being developed on the basis of AFES (AGCM For the Earth Simulator) in order to study atmospheric phenomena of Venus by the numerical simulation with high resolution. Super-rotation is assumed to exist at initial state and to be maintained by the relaxation forcing due to the meridional temperature gradient. In the time evolution of this setting, baroclinic modes grow in the cloud layer with small static stability. The structures of unstable modes are similar to those obtained in the linear stability analysis initially, but changed by the nonlinear interactions in the later stage. Meridional transport of momentum and heat by these unstable inodes is discussed.
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M3 - Article
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VL - 61
SP - 11
EP - 21
JO - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
JF - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
SN - 1348-0693
ER -