Interaction of moist convection with zonal jets on Jupiter and Saturn

Icarus

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-123

  Li, Liming ^a   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^a   Huang, Xianglei ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, dynamics; Jupiter, atmosphere; Saturn, atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844504733     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.08.016     Document Type: Article

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