Water vapor variations in the Venus mesosphere from microwave spectra

Icarus

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-143

  Sandor, Brad J ^a   Clancy, R Todd ^b  

^a Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, composition; Atmospheres, structure; Photochemistry; Spectroscopy; Venus, atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744452074     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.03.020     Document Type: Article

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