Seasonal changes of the baroclinic wave activity in the northern hemisphere of Mars simulated with a GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Kuroda, Takeshi ^a   Medvedev, Alexander S ^a   Hartogh, Paul ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS;

BAROCLINIC WAVE ACTIVITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEMISPHERE; MARS; SEASONAL VARIATIONS;

PLANETS;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; JET STREAM; MARS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 34347220073     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028816     Document Type: Article

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