Dynamics of Venus' superrotation: The eddy momentum transport processes newly found in a GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Yamamoto, Masaru ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GRAVITATION; ROTATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE EFFECTS;

EDDY MOMENTUM TRANSPORT PROCESS; ROSSBY WAVES; SUPERROTATION; VENUS;

PLANETS;

MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PLANETARY ROTATION; PLANETARY WAVE; VENUS;

EID: 3543106110     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019518     Document Type: Article

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