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Maps showing longitudinal slices of the Vertical Wind (left), Temperature (middle), and Vertical Enthalpy Flux (right), at the equator, for three exemplary HD209458b-like models with rotation rates of 0.125Ω0 (top), Ω0 (middle), and 15Ω0 (bottom). Here we have confined our plots to pressures less than 0.26 bar in order to emphasise the dynamics and transport in the outer and mid atmosphere, particularly at pressure levels similar to those at which the night-side hot-spot forms. We note the difference in scale for the vertical enthalpy flux in our 15Ω0 case, emphasising the weaker vertical transport, even at the equator, in the rapidly rotating regime.

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