Jupiter's Tropospheric Temperature Structure in 1996 and 1997 DPS Pasadena Meeting 2000, 23-27 October 2000 Session 12. The zonal mean structure is constant during the span of the data sets, showing a warm North and South Equatorial Belts, a cool equator, and a warm southern hemisphere.
All dates show longitudinal structure with little consistency between dates.
The GRS and the white ovals are the only distinct features identifiable across the time span of the data sets. Very little power is seen longitudinal power spectra above wavenumber 10 but there are many peaks below 10. The general temperature structure at 100 and 400 mbar is similar, however, longitudinal spectra show much less similarity between the two levels. This suggests that the longitudinal structure is not constant with height. This work was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA, and supported in part by the NASA Planetary Astronomy Program and the Galileo Project.