Penetrative convection and zonal flow on Jupiter

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5277, 1996, Pages 941-943

  Zhang, Keke ^a,b   Schubert, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0029789642     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5277.941     Document Type: Article

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