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Zonal winds at high latitudes on Venus: An improved application of cyclostrophic balance to Venus Express observations

Icarus (2011)

Authors:

JM Mendon莽a, PL Read, CF Wilson, SR Lewis

Principles of Planetary Climate

Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010

Evidence for Climate Change on Mars

Chapter in Solar System Update, Springer (2010) 135

Authors:

SR Lewis, PL Read

Abstract:

This book, the first in a series of forthcoming volumes, consists of topical and timely reviews of a number of carefully selected topics in solar systemn science.

The Importance of Ice Vertical Resolution for Snowball Climate and Deglaciation

Journal of Climate American Meteorological Society 23:22 (2010) 6100-6109

Authors:

Dorian S Abbot, Ian Eisenman, Raymond T Pierrehumbert

Synchronization in a pair of thermally coupled rotating baroclinic annuli: understanding atmospheric teleconnections in the laboratory.

Phys Rev Lett 104:20 (2010) 204501

Authors:

AA Castrej贸n-Pita, PL Read

Abstract:

Synchronization phenomena in a fluid dynamical analogue of atmospheric circulation is studied experimentally by investigating the dynamics of a pair of thermally coupled, rotating baroclinic annulus systems. The coupling between the systems is in the well-known master-slave configuration in both periodic and chaotic regimes. Synchronization tools such as phase dynamics analysis are used to study the dynamics of the coupled system and demonstrate phase synchronization and imperfect phase synchronization, depending upon the coupling strength and parameter mismatch.