Wind-driven surface waves on Titan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 105, Issue E5, 2000, Pages 12077-12091

  Ghafoor, Nadeem A L ^a   Zarnecki, John C ^a   Challenor, Peter ^b   Srokosz, Meric A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITAN; WATER; WAVE; WIND;

EID: 0033759851     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JE001066     Document Type: Article

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