Deep zonal winds can result from shallow driving in a giant-planet atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 513-526

  Showman, Adam P ^a   Gierasch, Peter J ^b   Lian, Yuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

atmosphere; Atmospheres; dynamics; Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646575627     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.01.019     Document Type: Article

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