Cassini RADAR constraint on Titan's winter polar precipitation

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 812-816

  Lorenz, R D ^a   West, R D ^b   Johnson, W T K ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteorology; Radar observations; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249099996     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.12.025     Document Type: Article

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