New wind measurements in Venus' lower mesosphere from visible spectroscopy

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1741-1756

  Widemann, Thomas ^a   Lellouch, Emmanuel ^a   Campargue, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b LIPHY   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Upper atmosphere; Venus; Visible spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY; FLOW PATTERNS; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISIBILITY; WIND EFFECTS;

ANTI-SOLAR (SS-AS) FLOW PATTERN; HIGH-RESOLUTION DOPPLER SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR FRAUNHOFER LINES; VENUS MESOSPHERE; WIND MEASUREMENTS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 34748901138     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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