Rossby autosoliton
Abstract
A new nonlinear physical entity, a Rossby autosoliton, has been produced experimentally. It is an undamped, solitary, drifting, anticyclonic vortex which self-organizes in oppositely directed streams in rotating shallow water. It may be thought of as a steady-state soliton model of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, developed experimentally for the first time.
- Publication:
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USSR Report Space
- Pub Date:
- September 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985RpSpR.......68A
- Keywords:
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- Jupiter Red Spot;
- Planetary Waves;
- Solitary Waves;
- Vortices;
- Cyclogenesis;
- Viscous Damping;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer