Superrotation and equatorial waves in a T21 Venus-like AGCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Yamamoto, Masaru ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FREQUENCIES; GRAVITY WAVES;

EQUATORIAL WAVES;

GEOPHYSICS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; VENUS;

EID: 0041738983     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL016924     Document Type: Article

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