Jet streams and tracer mixing in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and isolated young giant planets

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Abstract:: Observations of brown dwarfs and relatively isolated young extrasolar giant planets have provided unprecedented details to probe atmospheric dynamics in a new regime. Questions about mechanisms governing the global circulation and its fundamental nature remain to be completely addressed. Previous studies have shown that small-scale randomly varying thermal perturbations resulting from interactions between convection and the overlying stratified layers can drive zonal jet streams, waves, and t...
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Institution:

University of Oxford

Division:

MPLS

Department:

Physics

Sub department:

Atmos Ocean & Planet Physics

Role:

Author

ORCID:

0000-0003-2278-6932

Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Journal:: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society More from this journal
Volume:: 511
Issue:: 4
Pages:: 4861–4881
Publication date:: 2022-02-09
Acceptance date:: 2022-02-04
DOI:: 10.1093/mnras/stac344
EISSN:: 1365-2966
ISSN:: 0035-8711

Language:: English
Keywords:: methods: numerical

brown dwarfs

planets and satellites: gaseous planets

planets and satellites: atmospheres

hydrodynamics

FFR
Pubs id:: 1237458
Local pid:: pubs:1237458
Deposit date:: 2022-02-04

Copyright holder:: Xianyu Tan
Rights statement:: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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