Neptune’s atmospheric circulation and cloud morphology: Changes revealed by 1998 HST imaging

Icarus

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 244-260

  Sromovsky, L A ^a   Fry, P M ^a   Dowling, T E ^b   Baines, K H ^b   Limaye, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neptune; Neptune, atmosphere; Neptune, clouds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000523520     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6574     Document Type: Article

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