Jovian atmospheric dynamics: An update after Galileo and Cassini

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1935-1996

  Vasavada, Ashwin R ^a   Showman, Adam P ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/68/8/R06     Document Type: Article

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