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VOLUME 36 (1982) | ISSUE 6 | PAGE 190
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and the Jovian Great Red Spot
It has been shown experimentally, for the first time, that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is manifested by a predominant generation of anticyclonic Rossby solitons in a model of a homogeneous atmosphere of a rotating planet. These solitons drift opposite the global rotation. Their properties and the conditions for their existence are reminiscent of the vortex at the Jovian Great Red Spot.