Zonal jets rotating convection with mixed mechanical boundary conditions

Icarus

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 492-498

  Aurnou, Jonathan M ^a,c   Heimpel, Moritz H ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; Convection; Jupiter; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942595708     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.01.013     Document Type: Article

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