Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Generation of gravity waves from thermal tides in the Venus atmosphere

  • Norihiko Sugimoto,
  • Yukiko Fujisawa,
  • Hiroki Kashimura,
  • Katsuyuki Noguchi,
  • Takeshi Kuroda,
  • Masahiro Takagi,
  • Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24002-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Gravity waves are observed in Venus atmosphere, but their characteristics are not well-known. Here, the authors show spontaneous generation of gravity waves from the thermal tides in the Venus atmosphere as small-scale gravity waves are resolved in high-resolution general circulation model.