Solar semidiurnal tide in the dusty atmosphere of Mars

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1798-1817

  Forbes, Jeffrey M ^a   Miyahara, Saburo ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

DUSTY ATMOSPHERE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; MARS; SOLAR SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; ZONAL MEAN TEMPERATURE;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DUST STORM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOSPHERE; WIND; WINTER;

EID: 33746911908     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3718.1     Document Type: Article

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