Titan's stratospheric zonal wind, temperature, and ethane abundance a year prior to huygens insertion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kostiuk, T ^a,b   Livengood, T A ^a,b,c   Hewagama, T ^a,d   Sonnabend, G ^a,b   Fast, K E ^a   Murakawa, K ^a,b,e   Tokunaga, A T ^b,f   Annen, J ^a,b   Buhl, D ^a   Schmulling F ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c University of Space Research Association   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; ETHANE; GAS EMISSIONS; SATELLITES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERIC ZONAL WIND; TITAN; WIND VELOCITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; TITAN;

EID: 30744478199     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023897     Document Type: Article

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