On Jupiter's inertial mode oscillations

Properties of inertial modes of Jupiter are investigated for an n=1 polytro pic description of the planet interior. We use the anelastic approximation to overcome the usual handicap of a severe spherical harmonics truncation. A powerful iterative solver then allows us to compute the frequencies of th e most promising low-order modes using as many spherical harmonics as neces sary. The induced O1% errors of our model are now within observational limi ts. A plausible seismological model of Jupiter might thus be at hand provid ed the use of a more realistic description of the planet interior.