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
Geología Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85019831293
Source
Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN of the container
00948276
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