Titan's planetary boundary layer structure at the Huygens landing site

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Tokano, Tetsuya ^a   Ferri, Francesca ^b   Colombatti, Giacomo ^b   Mäkinen, Teemu ^c   Fulchignoni, Marcello ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; HEAT FLUX; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TITAN; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 33846539797     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JE002704     Document Type: Article

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