Wind-induced seasonal angular momentum exchange at Titan's surface and its influence on Titan's length-of-day

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Tokano, Tetsuya ^a   Neubauer, Fritz M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MOON; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND-INDUCED SEASONAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM EXCHANGE;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

PLANETARY SURFACE; TITAN; WIND EROSION;

EID: 32644443821     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024456     Document Type: Article

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