The Dynamics of Long-Lived Planetary Vortices

长寿行星涡旋的动力学

• 批准号: 9119766
• 负责人: Philip Marcus
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-06-01 至 1995-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9119766&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dynamics; Long; Lived; Planetary; Vortices

The goal of this project is to find the simplest atmospheric model that captures the essential physics of the dynamics of long-lived planetary features such as Jupiter's Great Red Spot and other coherent vortices, the Dark Spot of Neptune, the polar vortex of Saturn, and the Earth's Antarctic polar vortex. The philosophy is that a simple, but qualitatively correct model is the key to a good physical understanding of the mechanisms that govern planetary vortices, their wakes, and their waves.

该项目的目的是找到最简单的大气模型，该模型捕获了长期行星特征的动力学基本物理，例如木星的大红色点和其他连贯的涡流，海王星的黑点，土星的极地涡流和地球的南极极性涡流。 理念是，一个简单但定性上正确的模型是对控制行星涡流，唤醒和波浪的机制有很好的物理理解的关键。