Exoplanet atmospheric dynamics includes day-night circulation, zonal jets, waves, vortices, storms, and heat redistribution under irradiation, rotation, drag, and magnetic effects.
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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