The vertical profile of winds on Titan

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 800-802

  Bird, M K ^a   Allison, M ^b   Asmar, S W ^c   Atkinson, D H ^d   Avruch, I M ^e   Dutta Roy, R ^a   Dzierma, Y ^a   Edenhofer, P ^f   Folkner, W M ^c   Gurvits, L I ^e   Johnston, D V ^c   Plettemeier, D ^g   Pogrebenko, S V ^e   Preston, R A ^c   Tyler, G L ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e JOINT INSTITUTE FOR VLBI IN EUROPE   (Netherlands)

^f RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^g DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

DOPPLER WIND EXPERIMENT; ZONAL WINDS;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; TITAN; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 28344449933     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04060     Document Type: Article

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