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gfdl's home page > gfdl on-line bibliography > 1982: Nature, 297(5864), 295-299.
The range and unity of planetary circulations
| Williams, G. P., and J. L. Holloway, Jr., 1982: The range and unity of planetary circulations. Nature, 297(5864), 295-299. |
| Abstract: Altering the rotation rate, obliquity and diurnal period of an Earth-like model atmosphere produces a wide range of circulation forms, some of which resemble those observed on Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and (perhaps) on Uranus and Neptune. These unified solutions suggest: that Jupiter and Saturn resemble a larger, faster-spinning Earth and possess a stress-bearing or momentum-exchanging sublayer; that easterly winds prevail in Uranus' summer hemisphere; and that Venus resembles a slowly rotating Earth if diurnal heating variations are included. |