Near-surface winds at the Huygens site on Titan: Interpretation by means of a general circulation model

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1990-2009

  Tokano, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Huygens; Meteorology; Titan; Wind

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SPACE PROBES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

HUYGENS PROBES; SEASONAL REDISTRIBUTION; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; TITAN;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 35348830356     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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