Gravitational tidal waves in Titan's upper atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 251-258

  Strobel, Darrell F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; atmospheres; atmospheric; dynamics; Satellites; structure; Tides; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645910550     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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