Temperature (colorscale in K) and winds (arrows) as a function of longitude and latitude with different heating functions, with drag and radiative timescales defined as in Komacek & Showman (2016) with non-dimensional values of 1 (almost half an Earth day). (a–c): the initial pressure at this height is 50 mbar which corresponds to an initial temperature of 1326 K and the forcing is ΔT_eq,top = 50 K. (d): the initial pressure is 40 mbar and initial temperature 1322 K. (a): heating as in Komacek & Showman (2016) (b): same as in Komacek & Showman (2016) but with a cooling at the night side three times more efficient than the heating on the day side. (c): same as in Komacek & Showman (2016) with no cooling at the night side. (d): heating rate extracted from the full radiative transfer calculations of the GCM (divided by ten to obtain comparable values).