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Caption: Figure 2.
Temperature (in K) and wind maps, continued from Figure 1, at pressure levels of 4.4 bar (top) and 20 bar (bottom) in our hot Jupiter model. Maximum wind speeds are 1 (top) and 0.2 km s −1 (bottom). At these deeper levels, the winds have largely homogenized the longitudinal temperature structure, although some latitudinal gradient remains. The super-rotating equatorial jet descends through much of the atmosphere, down to approximately 7 bar.
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