Title
A planetary-scale disturbance in the most intense Jovian atmospheric jet from JunoCam and ground-based observations
Date Issued
28 May 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sánchez-Lavega A.
Rogers J.H.
Orton G.S.
García-Melendo E.
Legarreta J.
Dauvergne J.L.
Hueso R.
Rojas J.F.
Pérez-Hoyos S.
Mendikoa I.
Iñurrigarro P.
Gomez-Forrellad J.M.
Momary T.
Hansen C.J.
Eichstaedt G.
Miles P.
Wesley A.
Observatoire de Paris
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
We describe a huge planetary-scale disturbance in the highest-speed Jovian jet at latitude 23.5°N that was first observed in October 2016 during the Juno perijove-2 approach. An extraordinary outburst of four plumes was involved in the disturbance development. They were located in the range of planetographic latitudes from 22.2° to 23.0°N and moved faster than the jet peak with eastward velocities in the range 155 to 175 m s−1. In the wake of the plumes, a turbulent pattern of bright and dark spots (wave number 20–25) formed and progressed during October and November on both sides of the jet, moving with speeds in the range 100–125 m s−1 and leading to a new reddish and homogeneous belt when activity ceased in late November. Nonlinear numerical models reproduce the disturbance cloud patterns as a result of the interaction between local sources (the plumes) and the zonal eastward jet.
Start page
4679
End page
4686
Volume
44
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas Geología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85019831293
Source
Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN of the container
00948276
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