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Article Dans Une Revue Icarus Année : 2009

Brightness power spectral distribution and waves in Jupiter's upper cloud and hazes

N. Barrado-Izagirre
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S. Pérez-Hoyos
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A. Sánchez-Lavega
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In this work we analyze the spatial structure of Jupiter's cloud reflectivity field in order to determine brightness periodicities and power spectra characteristics together with their relationship with Jupiter's dynamics and turbulence. The research is based on images obtained in the near-infrared (), blue () and near-ultraviolet () wavelengths with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 and the Cassini spacecraft Imaging Science Subsystem in 2000. Zonal reflectivity scans were analyzed by means of spatial periodograms and power spectra. The periodograms have been used to search for waves as a function of latitude. We present the values of the dominant wavenumbers for latitude bands between 32°N and 42°S. The brightness power spectra analysis has been performed in the meridional and zonal directions. The meridional analysis of albedo profiles are close to a law similarly to the wind profiles at blue and infrared wavelengths, although results differ from that in the ultraviolet. The zonal albedo analysis results in two distributions characterized by different slopes. In the near infrared and blue wavelengths, average spectral slopes are for shorter wavenumbers (), and for greater wavenumbers, whereas for the ultraviolet and , possibly showing a different dynamical regime. We find a turning point in the spectra between both regimes at wavenumber (corresponding to ) for all wavelengths.

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hal-00545288 , version 1 (10-12-2010)

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N. Barrado-Izagirre, S. Pérez-Hoyos, A. Sánchez-Lavega. Brightness power spectral distribution and waves in Jupiter's upper cloud and hazes. Icarus, 2009, 202 (1), pp.181. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.015⟩. ⟨hal-00545288⟩

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