Influence of water ice clouds on Martian tropical atmospheric temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Wilson, R John ^a   Lewis, Stephen R ^b   Montabone, Luca ^b   Smith, Michael D ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; DUST; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SPACE RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; BEST ESTIMATE (BE); CONTROL SIMULATIONS; DUST DISTRIBUTION; DUST OPACITY; MARS GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR (MGS); MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (NH); RADIATIVE FORCING; RE ANALYSIS; SUMMER SOLSTICE; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES; WATER ICE CLOUDS; ZONAL MEAN TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 45549090226     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032405     Document Type: Article

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