Monitoring atmospheric phenomena on Titan

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 456, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 761-774

  Hirtzig, M ^a   Coustenis, A ^a   Gendron, E ^a   Drossart, P ^a   Negrao A ^a,c   Combes, M ^a   Lai, O ^a,b   Rannou, P ^c   Lebonnois, S ^d   Luz, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Planets and satellites: individual: Titan

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL EFFECTS; OPTICS IMAGING; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; TITAN;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DATA ACQUISITION; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 33748856671     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053381     Document Type: Article

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