Semiannual oscillations in the atmosphere of Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Kuroda, Takeshi ^a,b   Medvedev, Alexander S ^a   Hartogh, Paul ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MODULATION; ROTATION; TIDES;

DRIVING MECHANISMS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; KELVIN WAVES; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYORS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES; MEAN FLOWS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PLANETARY WAVES; QUASI STATIONARIES; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; THERMAL TIDES; ZONAL WINDS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KELVIN WAVE; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERIODICITY; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION; TORQUE;

EID: 60149099690     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036061     Document Type: Article

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