What is it about?
This is a review of wind storms, or large vortices, observed in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, and of analogous circulations inferred in the atmospheres of rapidly rotating stars.
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Why is it important?
Observing one or more persistent, giant wind storm is evidence of strong Coriolis effects, stratification, and a ready supply of small-scale energy. These features provide important insights into the nature of a planetary or stellar atmosphere.
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This collaboration was made possible by the Woods Hole Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Professor Timothy E. Dowling
University of Louisville
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This page is a summary of: Stellar and Jovian Vortices, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, December 1990, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1990.tb37806.x.
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