Jupiter's tropospheric thermal emission: II. Power spectrum analysis and wave search

Icarus

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-44

  Harrington, Joseph ^a,c   Dowling, Timothy E ^a   Baron, Richard L ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0030295262     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0188     Document Type: Article

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