Zonal jets : phenomenology, genesis, and physics / edited by Boris Galperin (University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg), Peter L. Read (University of Oxford, Oxford).

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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of contributor; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Dedications: Raymond Hide and Gareth P. Williams; I Introduction; 1 The World of Jets; II Zonal Jets in Nature; 2 Terrestrial Atmospheres; 2.1 TERRESTRIAL PLANET CIRCULATION: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; 2.2 OBSERVED ZONAL FLOWS; 2.2.1 Earth; 2.2.2 Mars; 2.2.3 Venus; 2.2.4 Titan; 2.2.5 Summary of Key Phenomena; 2.3 JETS PRODUCED BY ANGULAR-MOMENTUM-CONSERVING FLOWS; 2.3.1 Subtropical Jets on Earth, Mars; 2.4 POTENTIAL VORTICITY AND EDDY-DRIVEN JETS

2.4.1 Potential Vorticity2.4.2 Jet Production by Rossby Waves; 2.4.3 Quasi-Geostrophic Theories for Eliassen-Palm Fluxes; 2.4.4 Finite-Amplitude Wave Activity Density and Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction; 2.4.5 Dynamics of Earth's Subtropical Jet and Up-Gradient Eddy Fluxes of Potential Vorticity; 2.4.6 Mid-Latitude Jet Instabilities; 2.5 JET VARIABILITY AND INTERNAL FEEDBACKS; 2.5.1 Single vs Double Jet Structure; 2.5.2 Low-Frequency Variability; 2.5.3 Positive Eddy Feedbacks; 2.6 MID-LATITUDE TROPOSPHERIC JET VARIABILITY DUE TO EXTERNAL FORCING; 2.6.1 Orography/Land-Sea Contrast/Surface Heating

2.6.2 Jets and Oceanic Anomalies2.6.3 Jets and Diabatic Heating; 2.6.4 Jets and Stratospheric Forcings; 2.6.5 Jets and Climate Change; 2.6.6 Jets and Paleoclimate; 2.7 EQUATORIALLY SUPERROTATING JETS; 2.7.1 Superrotation and Hide's Theorem; 2.7.2 Earth's Quasi-Biennial Oscillation; 2.8 CONCLUSIONS; 3 Oceans; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 OBSERVATIONAL TOOLS; 3.3 EQUATORIAL AND TROPICAL JETS; 3.3.1 Data; 3.3.2 Upper Ocean and Thermocline; 3.3.3 Upper Subthermocline; 3.3.4 The Subthermocline Annual Cycle; 3.3.5 Vertical Propagation of the EDJs

3.3.6 The Subthermocline Near-Equatorial Circulation in Numerical Models3.4 JETS IN THE SUBTROPICS; 3.4.1 Ocean Circulation in the Subtropics; 3.4.2 Isolated Zonal Jets; 3.4.3 Beta-Plumes: A Single Pair of Zonal Jets; 3.4.4 Multiple Zonal Jets; 3.5 The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC); 3.5.1 The Continuous ACC: Circumpolar Jets; 3.5.2 The Intermittent ACC: Fractured Jets; 3.5.3 Meridional Tracer Transport and ACC Jets; 3.5.4 Observational Programs; 3.6 MID- AND HIGH-LATITUDE ZONAL JETS IN COMPREHENSIVE NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; 4 Gas Giants; 4.1 INTRODUCTION

4.2 VERTICAL ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE4.3 PLANETARY ROTATION AND REFERENCE FRAMES; 4.4 JUPITER AND SATURN WIND DATA; 4.4.1 Available Datasets; 4.5 JUPITER AND SATURN: METEOROLOGICAL FEATURES; 4.6 WIND MEASUREMENTS FROM CLOUD MOTIONS; 4.6.1 One-Dimensional Brightness Correlation; 4.6.2 Two-Dimensional Image Correlation; 4.7 JUPITER AND SATURN: MEAN WIND AT CLOUD LEVEL; 4.7.1 Upper Cloud Level; 4.7.2 Middle Cloud Level; 4.7.3 Winds Above Clouds; 4.7.4 Deep Winds; 4.8 JUPITER AND SATURN: EDDY WIND COMPONENTS AT CLOUD LEVELS; 4.9 JUPITER AND SATURN: TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF WINDS

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