Strong jet and a new thermal wave in Saturn's equatorial stratosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Liming, Li ^a   Gierasch, Peter J ^a   Achterberg, Richard K ^b   Conrath, Barney J ^a   Flasar, F Michael ^c   Vasavada, Ashwin R ^d   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^e   Banfield, Don ^a   Simon Miller, Amy A ^c   Fletcher, Leigh N ^d  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; JETS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CASSINI SPACECRAFT; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; EQUATORIAL STRATOSPHERES; EQUATORIAL WAVES; GIANT PLANETS; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATIONS; ROSSBY-GRAVITY WAVES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; THERMAL MAPS; THERMAL WAVES; WAVE NUMBERS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EQUATORIAL WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; NADIR; PHASE VELOCITY; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 60149101248     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035515     Document Type: Article

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