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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
卷 10, 期 9, 页码 646-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO3016
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- JSPS KAKENHI [15K17767, 16H02225, 16H02231, 16K17816]
- NASA [NNX16AC79G]
- JAXA's International Top Young Fellowship (ITYF)
- NASA [NNX16AC79G, 907171] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K17767, 16H02225, 16K17816, 16H02231, 15K05303] Funding Source: KAKEN
The Venusian atmosphere is in a state of superrotation where prevailing westward winds move much faster than the planet's rotation. Venus is covered with thick clouds that extend from about 45 to 70 km altitude, but thermal radiation emitted from the lower atmosphere and the surface on the planet's nightside escapes to space at narrow spectral windows of the near-infrared. The radiation can be used to estimate winds by tracking the silhouettes of clouds in the lower and middle cloud regions below about 57 km in altitude. Estimates of wind speeds have ranged from 50 to 70ms 1 at low to mid-latitudes, either nearly constant across latitudes or with winds peaking at mid-latitudes. Here we report the detection of winds at low latitude exceeding 80 m s(-1) using IR2 camera images from the Akatsuki orbiter taken during July and August 2016. The angular speed around the planetary rotation axis peaks near the equator, which we suggest is consistent with an equatorial jet, a feature that has not been observed previously in the Venusian atmosphere. The mechanism producing the jet remains unclear. Our observations reveal variability in the zonal flow in the lower and middle cloud region that may provide clues to the dynamics of Venus's atmospheric superrotation.
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