Seasonal change in the deep atmosphere of Uranus

Icarus

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 168-180

  Hofstadter, Mark D ^a   Butler, Bryan J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant planet; Microwave; Uranus

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542530880     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00174-X     Document Type: Article

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