Venus Doppler winds at cloud tops observed with ESPaDOnS at CFHT

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1320-1334

  Widemann, Thomas ^a   Lellouch, Emmanuel ^a   Donati, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Upper atmosphere; Venus; Visible spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SUN;

DOPPLER WINDS; DYNAMICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VENUS; VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 51249115621     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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