superrotationn.
/ˌsuːpərə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn/, /ˌsjuːpərə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsupərroʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Atmospheric Physics and Astronomy.
Rotation of the atmosphere of a planet at a higher speed than the rotation of the planet itself.
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1968 Planetary & Space Sci. 16 558 The wind pattern is superimposed on the motion of the co-rotating atmosphere, and super-rotation, or departure from co-rotation, is therefore a result of spatial integration of the wind pattern.
1983 Science 25 Nov. 923/1 The puzzle of Venus's atmospheric super-rotation is still a puzzle.
1994 Sci. Amer. Apr. 73/2 On the earth, winds..at higher latitudes exceed the speed of the surface, a state known as superrotation.
2009 P. G. J. Irwin Giant Planets of Solar Syst. v. 155 The nature of the super-rotation of the equatorial atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, and indeed the observed super-rotation of the slowly rotating worlds of Venus and Titan is an area of very active research.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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