期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 700, 期 1, 页码 887-897出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/700/1/887
关键词
infrared: general; infrared: stars; planetary systems; stars: atmospheres; turbulence
资金
- NASA [NNG06GF55G]
Remote observing of exoplanetary atmospheres is now possible, offering us access to circulation regimes unlike any of the familiar solar system cases. Atmospheric circulation models are being developed to study these new regimes but model validations and intercomparisons are needed to establish their consistency and accuracy. To this end, we present a simple Earth-like validation of the pseudospectral solver of meteorological equations called Intermediate General Circulation Model (IGCM), based on Newtonian relaxation to a prescribed latitudinal profile of equilibrium temperatures. We then describe a straightforward and idealized model extension to the atmospheric flow on a hot Jupiter with the same IGCM solver. This shallow, three-dimensional hot Jupiter model is based on Newtonian relaxation to a permanent day-night pattern of equilibrium temperatures and the absence of surface drag. The baroclinic regime(1) of the Earth's lower atmosphere is contrasted with the more barotropic regime of the simulated hot Jupiter flow. For plausible conditions at the 0.1-1 bar pressure level on HD 209458b, the simulated flow is characterized by unsteadiness, subsonic wind speeds, a zonally perturbed superrotating equatorial jet and large-scale polar vortices. Violation of the Rayleigh-Kuo inflexion point criterion on the flanks of the accelerating equatorial jet indicates that barotropic (horizontal shear) instabilities may be important dynamical features of the simulated flow. Similarities and differences with previously published simulated hot Jupiter flows are briefly noted.
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