On the maintenance of thermal wind balance and equatorial superrotation in Titan's stratosphere

Icarus

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 331-350

  Zhu, Xun ^a   Strobel, Darrell F ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Meteorology; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644480822     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.01.016     Document Type: Article

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