CO2 amount on Venus constrained by a criterion of topographic-greenhouse instability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 289-292

  Hashimoto, George L ^a   Abe, Yutaka ^a   Sasaki, Sho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBONATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSES; SURFACE REACTIONS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY CRITERIA;

A-STABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CARBONATION REACTIONS; NEAR-SURFACE LAYERS; UPPER LIMITS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERIC INVENTORIES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; TOPOGRAPHY;

VENUS;

EID: 0031076329     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL04006     Document Type: Article

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