Predicting The Equatorial Jet Speed on Terrestrial Tidally Locked Planets
Mark Hammond - University of ChicagoMar 31, 2021
Atmospheric theory
tidally locked planets
superrotation
GCMs
UKEXOM2021
In this talk, recorded for UKEXOM 2021, I give an overview of the paper "The Equatorial Jet Speed on Tidally Locked Planets: I -- Terrestrial Planets". Tidally locked planets always present the same side to their host star, and are thought to have strong eastward equatorial jets in their atmospheres. ...