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Turbulence parametrizations will remain a necessary building block in kilometer-scale Earth system models. In convective boundary layers, where the mean vertical gradients of conserved properties such as potential temperature and moisture…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-28 Florian Heyder , Juan Pedro Mellado , Jörg Schumacher

The Venus thermal radiation spectrum exhibits the signature of $CO_2$ absorption bands. By means of inversion techniques, those bands enable the retrieval of atmospheric temperature profiles. We have analyzed VIRTIS-M-IR night-side data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 I. Garate-Lopez , A. García Muñoz , R. Hueso , A. Sánchez-Lavega

To explain Venus' young surface age and lack of plate tectonics, Venus' tectonic regime has often been proposed to be either an episodic-lid regime with global lithospheric overturns, or an equilibrium resurfacing regime with numerous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Jiacheng Tian , Paul J. Tackley , Diogo L. Lourenço

The viscosity of water induces a vorticity near the free surface boundary. The resulting rotational component of the fluid velocity vector greatly complicates the water wave system. Several approaches to close this system have been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-16 D. Eeltink , A. Armaroli , M. Brunetti , J. Kasparian

We perform three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of surface-driven convection near the temperature of maximum density $\tilde T_{md}$. A dynamic surface boundary condition couples heat flux through the surface to the induced…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Jason Olsthoorn

We study the influence of linear friction on the vortex motion in a non-viscous stratified compressible rotating media. Our method can be applied to describe the complex behavior of a tropical cyclone approaching land. In particular, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-15 Olga Rozanova , Jui-Ling Yu , Chin-Kun Hu

The diurnal cycle of precipitation near New Guinea involves intricate land-ocean-atmosphere interactions, posing substantial challenges for tropical weather and climate simulations. Using over two decades of GPM satellite observations and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Mingyue Tang , Jimy Dudhia , Changhai Liu , Giuseppe Torri

The dynamic and thermal regimes of climate are regulated by an exchange of energy and momentum between the atmosphere and the ocean. The role exerted by surface waves on this interchange is particularly enigmatic. Waves induce turbulence in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Alberto Alberello , Federico Frascoli , Miguel Onorato , Alessandro Toffoli

Turbulence and large-scale waves in the tropical region are studied using the spherical shallow water equations. With mesoscale vorticity forcing, both moist and dry systems show kinetic energy scaling that is dominated by rotational modes,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Schröttle , D. L. Suhas , N. Harnik , J. Sukhatme

We analyze data from multiple flybys by the Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, and Parker Solar Probe (PSP) missions to study the interaction between Venus' plasma environment and the solar wind forming the induced magnetosphere. Through…

This paper serves as a review of our recent new DNS study on physics of late boundary layer transition. This includes mechanism of the large coherent vortex structure formation, small length scale generation and flow randomization. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-26 Chaoqun Liu , Ping Lu

Spherical solar dynamo simulations are performed. Self-consistent, fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic system with a stably stratified layer below the convective envelope is numerically solved with a newly developed simulation code based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Youhei Masada , Kohei Yamada , Akira Kageyama

Earth has had oceans for nearly four billion years and Mars had lakes and rivers 3.5-3.8 billion years ago. However, it is still unknown whether water has ever condensed on the surface of Venus because the planet - now completely dry - has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Martin Turbet , Emeline Bolmont , Guillaume Chaverot , David Ehrenreich , Jeremy Leconte , Emmanuel Marcq

The $24^{\circ}$ N jet borders the North Tropical Belt and North Tropical Zone, and is the fastest prograde jet on Jupiter, reaching speeds above $170$ m/s. In this region, observations have shown several periodic convective plumes, likely…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-22 Ramanakumar Sankar , Chloe Klare , Csaba Palotai

We have obtained spatially resolved near-infrared spectroscopy of the Venus nightside on 15 nights over three observing seasons. We use the depth of the CO absorption band at 2.3 microns to map the two-dimensional distribution of CO across…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel V. Cotton , Jeremy Bailey , D. Crisp , V. S. Meadows

The surface winds of Jupiter and Saturn are primarily zonal. Each planet exhibits strong prograde equatorial flow flanked by multiple alternating zonal winds at higher latitudes. The depth to which these flows penetrate has long been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Gastine , M. Heimpel , J. Wicht

We present measurements of the wind speeds at the nightside lower clouds of Venus from observations by JAXA's mission Akatsuki during 2016, complemented with new wind measurements from ground-based observations acquired with TNG/NICS in…

Recently discovered exoplanets on close-in orbits should have surface temperatures of 100's to 1000's of K. They are likely tidally locked and synchronously rotating around their parent stars and, if an atmosphere is absent, have surface…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joost van Summeren , Clinton P. Conrad , Eric Gaidos

Atmospheric escape from close-in exoplanets is thought to be crucial in shaping observed planetary populations. Recently, significant progress has been made in observing this process in action through excess absorption in transit spectra…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Morgan MacLeod , Antonija Oklopčić

Sulfur-bearing species play crucial roles in atmospheric physical-chemical processes, atmosphere-surface interactions, and the geological evolution of Venus. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of (1) instrumental data on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Mikhail Zolotov