The effects of vigorous mixing in a convective model of zonal flow on the ice giants

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 110-126

  Aurnou, Jonathan ^a   Heimpel, Moritz ^b   Wicht, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; dynamics; Interiors; Neptune; Uranus

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547783405     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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