CONVECTION AND THE DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION OF THE SUN,

Abstract

Criteria for estimating the superadiabatic temperature gradient required to produce a given convective energy flux in a rotating solar convective zone are discussed. It appears that, although the effect of rotation is negligible in the photosphere, it may double the superadiabatic gradient in the deep convective zone. Consequently, if convective heat transport is the same at the poles as at the equator of the Sun, the polar regions should be cooler by an amount of order 20K.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0618261

Entities

People

  • N. O. Weiss

Organizations

  • University of the Republic

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Convection
  • Isotherms
  • Motion
  • Observatories
  • Photosphere
  • Polar Regions
  • Regions
  • Rotation
  • Sun
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Transport Ships

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Solar Physics
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.