Greenhouse and thermophoretic effects in dust layers: The missing link for lifting of dust on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Wurm, Gerhard ^a   Teiser, Jens ^a   Reiss, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSES; STORMS; WIND STRESS;

DUST DEVILS; DUST ENTRAINMENTS; DUST LAYERS; DUST PARTICLES; DUST STORMS; LIFTING PROCESSES; LIGHT FLUXES; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; SOLAR INSOLATIONS; SUSPENDED DUSTS; THERMOPHORETIC EFFECTS;

DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DUST DEVIL; DUST STORM; ENTRAINMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INSOLATION; INTERPLANETARY DUST; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 58049092612     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033799     Document Type: Article

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