Titan's Stratospheric Temperature Asymmetry: A Radiative Origin?

Icarus

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 267-276

  Bézard, Bruno ^a   Coustenis, Athéna ^a   McKay, Christopher P ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROCARBON; NITRILE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-60; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-60; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRILES; SATURN; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029240785     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1995.1023     Document Type: Article

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