Velocity and vorticity measurements of Jupiter's Great Red Spot using automated cloud feature tracking

Icarus

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-46

  Choi, David S ^a   Banfield, Don ^b   Gierasch, Peter ^b   Showman, Adam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

atmosphere; Atmospheres; dynamics; Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147101713     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.10.037     Document Type: Article

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