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Atmospheric super-rotation

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Atmospheric superrotation is an eastward equatorial jet whose angular momentum per unit mass exceeds that of the underlying solid body at the equator. Hot-Jupiter waves can transport angular momentum into the equatorial region and maintain such a jet.

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