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The equatorial jet speed on tidally locked planets. I. Terrestrial planets
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The atmospheric circulation of tidally locked planets is dominated by a superrotating eastward equatorial jet. We develop a predictive theory for the formation of this jet, proposing a mechanism in which the three-dimensional stationary waves induced by the day–night forcing gradient produce an equatorial acceleration. This is balanced in equilibrium by an interaction between the resulting jet and the vertical motion of the atmosphere. The three-dimensional structure of the zonal acceleration...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Astronomical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Astrophysical Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 901
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 78
- Publication date:
- 2020-09-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-08-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1538-4357
- ISSN:
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0004-637X
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1133471
- Local pid:
- pubs:1133471
- Deposit date:
- 2021-08-09
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- Hammond et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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