Lightning on Neptune

Icarus

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 227-234

  Gibbard, S G ^a   Levy, E H ^b   Lunine, J I ^b   De Pater, I ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic processes; Lightning; Neptune

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009591906     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6101     Document Type: Article

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