A study of the propagation of electromagnetic waves in Titan's atmosphere with the TLM numerical method

Icarus

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 374-384

  Morente, Juan A ^a   Molina Cuberos, Gregorio J ^b   Portí, Jorge A ^a   Schwingenschuh, Korand ^c   Besser, Bruno P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ionospheres; Radio observations; Resonances; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038623961     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00025-3     Document Type: Article

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