Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus

Tetsuya Fukuhara,Masahiko Futaguchi,George Hashimoto,Takeshi Horinouchi,Takeshi Imamura,Naomoto Iwagaimi,Toru Kouyama,Shin-ya Murakami,Masato Nakamura,Kazunori Ogohara,Mitsuteru Sato,Takao M. Sato,Makoto Suzuki,Makoto Taguchi,Seiko Takagi,Munetaka Ueno,S. Watanabe,Manabu Yamada,Atsushi Yamazaki

Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus

2017

Tetsuya Fukuhara
Masahiko Futaguchi
George Hashimoto
Takeshi Horinouchi
Takeshi Imamura
Naomoto Iwagaimi
Toru Kouyama
Shin-ya Murakami
Masato Nakamura
Kazunori Ogohara
Mitsuteru Sato
Takao M. Sato
Makoto Suzuki
Makoto Taguchi
Seiko Takagi
Munetaka Ueno
S. Watanabe
Manabu Yamada
Atsushi Yamazaki

The upper atmosphere of Venus rotates much faster than the planet itself. An anomalous stationary structure observed by the Akatsuki mission at the cloud tops of Venus could be an atmospheric gravity wave induced by mountain topography below.

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Geology
Gravity wave
Atmospheric sciences
Atmosphere
Secondary atmosphere
Venus
Atmosphere of Venus
Planet
Geophysics
Astrobiology
Climatology
atmospheric dynamics

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