Saturn's 5.2-μm cold spots: Unexpected cloud variability

Icarus

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 189-193

  Yanamandra Fisher, Padmavati A ^a   Orton, Glenn S ^a   Fisher, Brendan M ^a   Sanchez Lavega, Augustin ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Jovian planets; Radiative transfer; Saturn; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038615186     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6580     Document Type: Article

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