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Development of a Cloud Convection Model for Jupiter's Atmosphere
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In this section, we present the result of a long-time numerical
simulation of cloud convection in Jupiter's atmosphere that was
carried out as a test run of the developed model (see Section
2). In this simulation, the model atmosphere is
subjected to externally given thermal forcing
as a substitute for both radiative
cooling near the tropopause and heating supplied by convection in the
deep atmosphere.
In order to reduce CPU time required to achieve a
statistical equilibrium state in the model atmosphere,
the cooling
rate near the tropopause is set to be about 100 times larger than that
estimated for the real Jupiter's atmosphere
following the setting of
Nakajima et al. (2000) [6].
We have to note that the convective
motion shown in this section is more activated than that of the real
atmosphere.
- 3.1 Set-up of the Experiment
- 3.2 Result (1): Vertical Motion and Atmospheric Structure
- 3.3 Result (2): Vertical Profiles of Clouds and Condensible Volatiles
- 3.4 Result (3): Static Stability
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