Monte Carlo radiative transfer modeling of lightning observed in Galileo images of Jupiter

Icarus

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 336-349

  Dyudina, U A ^a   Ingersoll, A P ^b   Vasavada, A R ^c   Ewald, S P ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, structure; Image processing; Jupiter, atmosphere; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036953393     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6977     Document Type: Article

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