A wind origin for Titan’s haze structure

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6900, 2002, Pages 853-856

  Rannou, P ^a   Hourdin, F ^b   McKay, C P ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOON; NITROGEN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

LATITUDINAL TEMPERATURE ASYMMETRY;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

HAZE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; TITAN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; HAZE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WIND;

EID: 0037158716     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00961     Document Type: Article

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