Heating of Jupiter's thermosphere by the dissipation of upward propagating acoustic waves

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 398-413

  Schubert, Gerald ^a,b   Hickey, Michael P ^c   Walterscheid, Richard L ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0037765458     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00078-2     Document Type: Article

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