The altitude of Neptune cloud features from high-spatial-resolution near-infrared spectra

Icarus

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 359-374

  Gibbard, S G ^a   de Peter, I ^b   Roe, H G ^c   Martin, S ^b   Macintosh, B A ^a   Max, C E ^a,d  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; Neptune, atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348234158     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.07.006     Document Type: Article

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