Geodesic transport barriers in Jupiter's atmosphere: a video-based analysis

DOI10.1137/140983665zbMATH Open1353.37179DBLPjournals/siamrev/HadjighasemH16arXiv1408.5594OpenAlexW319308488WikidataQ56863824 ScholiaQ56863824MaRDI QIDQ2808268FDOQ2808268

Authors: Alireza Hadjighasem, G. Haller 

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Jupiter's zonal jets and Great Red Spot are well known from still images. Yet the planet's atmosphere is highly unsteady, which suggests that the actual material transport barriers delineating its main features should be time-dependent. Rare video footages of Jupiter's clouds provide an opportunity to verify this expectation from optically reconstructed velocity fields. Available videos, however, provide short-time and temporally aperiodic velocity fields that defy classical dynamical systems analyses focused on asymptotic features. To this end, we use here the recent theory of geodesic transport barriers to uncover finite-time mixing barriers in the wind field extracted from a video captured by NASA's Cassini space mission. More broadly, the approach described here provides a systematic and frame-invariant way to extract dynamic coherent structures from time-resolved remote observations of unsteady continua.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5594

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zbMATH Keywords

invariant manifoldsnonlinear dynamical systemsLagrangian coherent structuresJupiter's atmosphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariant manifold theory for dynamical systems (37D10) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Planetary atmospheres (85A20)

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Uses Software

• GitHub
• LCS Tool

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