Cloud-tracked winds for the first Mars Global Surveyor mapping year

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Wang, Huiqun ^a   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation; Cloud tracking; Eddy; Mars; Mars Global Surveyor; Winds

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; POLAR REGION; WIND;

EID: 0347596518     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003je002107     Document Type: Article

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