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Explicit Planetary Isentropic Coordinate (EPIC) Model


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  • Latest Release: Version 4.23

    README.txt

    epic423.tar.gz

  • Last pure-isentropic-coordinate release: Version 3.85

    README.txt

    epic385.tar.gz


    The EPIC model is developed at the Comparative Planetology Laboratory (CPL)


    REFERENCES

    Dowling TE, Bradley ME, Colon E, Kramer J, LeBeau RP, Lee GCH, Mattox TI, Morales-Juberias R, Palotai CsJ, Parimi VK, Showman AP, 2006, The EPIC atmospheric model with an isentropic/terrain-following hybrid vertical coordinate, Icarus 182: 259-273

    Garcia-Melendo E, Sanchez-Lavega A, and Dowling TE, 2005, Jupiter's 24N highest speed jet: vertical structure deduced from nonlinear simulations of a large-amplitude natural disturbance, Icarus 176: 272-282

    Morales-Juberias R, Dowling TE, 2005, Simulations of high-latitude spots on Jupiter: constraints on vortex strength and the deep wind, Planet. Space Sci. 53, 1221-1233

    Morales-Juberias R, Sanchez-Lavega A, Dowling TE, 2003, EPIC simulations of the merger of Jupiter's White Ovals BE and FA: altitude-dependent behavior, Icarus 166: 63-74

    Showman AP and Guillot T, 2002, Atmospheric circulation and tides of "51 Pegasus b-like" planets, Astron. & Astrophys. 385, 166-180

    Stratman PW, Showman AP, Dowling TE, and Sromovsky LA, 2001, EPIC simulations of bright companions to Neptune's Great Dark Spots, Icarus 151: 275--285

    Showman AP and Dowling TE, 2000, Nonlinear simulations of Jupiter's 5-micron hot spots, Science 289: 1737-1740

    Dowling TE, Fischer AS, Gierasch PJ, Harrington J, LeBeau RP, and Santori CM, 1998, The Explicit Planetary Isentropic Coordinate (EPIC) atmospheric model, Icarus 132: 221-238

    LeBeau RP and Dowling TE, 1998, EPIC simulations of time-Dependent, three-dimensional vortices with application to Neptune's Great Dark Spot, Icarus 132: 239-265

    Harrington J, LeBeau RP, Backes KA, and Dowling TE, 1994, Dynamic response of Jupiter's atmosphere to the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Nature 368: 525-527


Last Update: November 29, 2007