Ammonia and Eddy Mixing Variations in the Upper Troposphere of Jupiter from HST Faint Object Spectrograph Observations

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 342-356

  Edgington, S G ^a   Atreya, S K ^a   Trafton, L M ^b   Caldwell, J J ^c   Beebe, R F ^d   Simon, A A ^d   West, R A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Jupiter; Photochemistry; Radiative transfer; Spectroscopy; Ultraviolet observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011073118     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6228     Document Type: Article

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