Atmospheric confinement of jet streams on Uranus and Neptune

Yohai Kaspi (), Adam P. Showman, William B. Hubbard, Oded Aharonson and Ravit Helled
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Yohai Kaspi: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Adam P. Showman: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
William B. Hubbard: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
Oded Aharonson: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Ravit Helled: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Nature, 2013, vol. 497, issue 7449, 344-347

Abstract: On Uranus and Neptune, the measured fourth-order gravity harmonic, J4, constrains the atmospheric dynamics to the outermost 0.15 per cent and 0.2 per cent, respectively, of the planetary mass, indicating that these dynamics are confined to a thin weather layer no more than 1,000 kilometres deep on both planets.

Date: 2013
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