Abstract
ABSTRACT Through helioseismic measurement of the Sun’s subsurface flows, we assess the Rossby number associated with the convective motions. The helioseismic procedure is a new form of the ring-analysis technique that is capable of resolving supergranulation. The extremely fine spatial resolution is achieved by deconvolving the set of p-mode Doppler shifts measured separately within a multitude of densely overlapping analysis regions. We find that just below the photosphere, the Rossby number is large ( ) and the convective flows are only weakly influenced by rotation. Below a depth of , the flows become rotationally constrained and the concomitant Rossby number is small ( ). These results support the supposition that the near-surface shear layer is a transition region for the degree of rotational impact on convective motions.
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