Analytic Solutions for the Antigreenhouse Effect: Titan and the Early Earth

Icarus

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-61

  McKay, Christopher P ^a   Lorenz, Ralph D ^b   Lunine, Jonathan I ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigreenhouse effect; Atmosphere; Greenhouse effect; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001837475     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6039     Document Type: Article

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