Winds and cloud morphology in the southern polar region of Venus

• Main Authors: Luz, David, Berry, David L., Peralta, Javier, Piccioni, Giuseppe, Drossart, Pierre, VIRTIS-Venus Express Team
• Format: Lecture
• Language: English
• Published: European Planetary Science Congress 2010 2010
• Subjects: Venus; Planetary Atmospheres; Venus Express; VIRTIS; North Pole; Ular
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/6911; http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2010/abstracts/EPSC2010-670.pdf

Spinning on average 60 times faster than the surface, the atmosphere of Venus is superrotational, a state in which the averaged angular momentum is much greater than that corresponding to co-rotation with the solid globe. The rapid mean flow, which is main- tained by momentum transports in the deep...