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 Jonathan Aurnou, Associate Professor of Planetology and Geophysics


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Mailing Address:

Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Office:Geology 5690
Office Telephone:(310) 825-2054
Lab Telephone:(310) 267-5218
Fax:(310) 825-2779
E-mail:jona@ess.ucla.edu
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 Current Research Interests:

 
    - Dynamics of planetary interiors
- Fluid Mechanics of convection systems
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Planetary magnetic field generation 
 

 Education:

 

Ph.D., 1999, Johns Hopkins University
M.A., 1996, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., 1993, State University of New York, Binghamton

 

 Selected Publications:

 

Noir, J., Hemmerlin, F., Wicht, J., Baca, S.M., and Aurnou, J.M., 2009, An experimental and numerical study of librationally driven flow in planetary cores and subsurface oceans, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 173: 141 - 152.

King, E.M., Stellmach, S., Noir, J., Hansen, U., and Aurnou, J.M., 2009, Boundary layer control of rotating convection systems, Nature 457: 301- 304.

Nadiga, B.T., and Aurnou, J.M., 2008, Hands-on: A tabletop demonstration of atmospheric dynamics - Baroclinic Instability, Oceanography, 21: 196 - 201.

Aurnou, J. M., Planetary core dynamics and convective heat transfer scaling, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 101: 327-345, 2007.

Zuber, M. T., O. Aharonson, J. Aurnou, and 9 additional authors, The geophysics of Mercury: Current status and anticipated insights from the MESSENGER Mission, Space Science Reviews, doi 10.1007/s11214-007-9265-4, 2007.

Aurnou, J. M., M. H. Heimpel and, J. Wicht, The effects of vigorous mixing in a convective model of zonal flow on the Ice Giants, Icarus, 190: 110-126, 2007.

M. H. Heimpel and J. M. Aurnou, Turbulent convection in rapidly rotating spherical shells: A model for equatorial and high latitude jets on Jupiter and Saturn, Icarus, 187: 540 – 557, 2007.

Hauck, S. A., J. M. Aurnou and, A. J. Dombard, Sulfur’s impact on core evolution and magnetic field generation on Ganymede, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), doi:10.1029/2005JE002557, 2006.

M. Heimpel, J. Aurnou, J. Wicht, Simulation of equatorial and high-latitude jets on Jupiter in a deep convection model, Nature, 438: 193-196, 2005.


 
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