The 90-day oscillations of Jupiter's Great Red Spot revisited

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 331-339

  Trigo Rodriguez, J M ^a   Sanchez Lavega A ^b   Gomez J M ^c   Lecacheux, J ^d   Colas, F ^e   Miyazaki, I ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c Grup d'Estudis Astronomics   (Spain)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e Bureau des Longitudes   (France)

^f NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Dynamics; Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005955408     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(00)00002-7     Document Type: Article

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