Titan zonal wind corroboration via the huygens DISR solar zenith angle measurement

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 544, 2004, Pages 125-130

  Allison, Michael ^a   Atkinson, David H ^b   Bird, Michael K ^c   Tomasko, Martin G ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DOPPLER WIND EXPERIMENT (DWE); SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 1542306767     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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