Gravity waves in Jupiter's stratosphere, as measured by the Galileo ASI experiment

Icarus

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 185-199

  Young, Leslie A ^a   Yelle, Roger V ^b   Young, Richard ^c   Seiff, Alvin ^c   Kirk, Donn B ^d  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, dynamics; Jupiter, atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144277304     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.07.020     Document Type: Article

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