The structure of Venus' middle atmosphere and ionosphere

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7170, 2007, Pages 657-660

  Patzold M ^a   Hausler B ^b   Bird, M K ^c   Tellmann, S ^a   Mattei, R ^b   Asmar, S W ^d   Dehant, V ^e   Eidel, W ^b   Imamura, T ^f   Simpson, R A ^g   Tyler, G L ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^f JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DIURNAL VARIATION; IONOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; VENUS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CLOUD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 36749014999     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06239     Document Type: Article

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