Model calculations for io’s atmosphere at eastern and western elongations

Icarus

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 60-74

  Wong, Mau C ^a,b   Smyth, William H ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; Composition; Dynamics; Io; Satellites of jupiter; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002470690     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6362     Document Type: Article

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