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Parameterizing slantwise convection in icy moon oceans
Yaoxuan Zeng, Malte F. Jansen
Convection in icy moon oceans is strongly influenced by rotation, organizing into slantwise columnar structures aligned with the planetary rotation axis. They generate significant…
Water vapor buoyancy and the African easterly jet
Heng Quan, Da Yang, William Boos +4
The African easterly jet (AEJ) is a prominent circulation feature in the tropical atmosphere. It transports mineral dust and generates easterly waves that serve as seeds for hurric…
Slantwise convection and heat transport in icy moon oceans
Yaoxuan Zeng, Malte F. Jansen
Ocean heat transport on icy moons shapes the ice shell topography, a primary observable of these moons. Two key processes control the heat transport: baroclinic instability driven…
Influence of penetration depth on jets on giant planets: equatorial jet direction, jet numbers, and jet energy fraction
Yaoxuan Zeng, Wanying Kang, Glenn R. Flierl +1
It remains puzzling why, despite their similar nature, Jupiter and Saturn possess a prograde equatorial jet, whereas Uranus and Neptune have a retrograde one. To understand this di…
Symmetric instability in a Boussinesq fluid on a rotating planet
Yaoxuan Zeng, Malte F. Jansen
Symmetric instability has broad applications in geophysical and planetary fluid dynamics. It plays a crucial role in the formation of mesoscale rainbands at mid-latitudes on Earth,…
The effect of salinity on ocean circulation and ice-ocean interaction on Enceladus
Yaoxuan Zeng, Malte F. Jansen
Observational data suggest that the ice shell on Enceladus is thicker at the equator than at the pole, indicating an equator-to-pole ice flow. If the ice shell is in an equilibrium…
Energetic constraints on ocean circulations of icy ocean worlds
Malte F. Jansen, Wanying Kang, Edwin Kite +1
Globally ice-covered oceans have been found on multiple moons in the solar system and may also have been a feature of Earth's past. However, relatively little is understood about t…
Oceanic Superrotation on Tidally Locked Planets
Yaoxuan Zeng, Jun Yang
Is there oceanic superrotation on exoplanets? Atmospheric superrotation, characterized by west-to-east winds over the equator, is a common phenomenon in the atmospheres of Venus, T…
Ocean Circulation on Enceladus With a High Versus Low Salinity Ocean
Yaoxuan Zeng, Malte F. Jansen
Previous studies that have considered the ocean circulation on Enceladus have generally assumed the salinity to be Earth-like. However, according to observations and geochemical co…
Transition from eyeball to snowball driven by sea-ice drift on tidally locked terrestrial planets
Jun Yang, Weiwen Ji, Yaoxuan Zeng
Tidally locked terrestrial planets around low-mass stars are the prime targets for future atmospheric characterizations of potentially habitable systems, especially the three nearb…