Direct detection of variable tropospheric clouds near Titan's south pole

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6917, 2002, Pages 795-797

  Brown, Michael E ^a   Bouchez, Antonin H ^a   Griffith, Caitlin A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; HYDROLOGY; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE;

MOIST CONVECTION;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; TITAN; TROPOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; HYDROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0037180756     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01302     Document Type: Article

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