Deep jets on gas-giant planets

Icarus

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 597-615

  Lian, Yuan ^a   Showman, Adam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

atmosphere; Atmospheres; dynamics; Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849137854     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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