Multiple equilibrium states appearing in a venus-like atmospheric general circulation model

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 969-979

  Kido, Atsushige ^a   Wakata, Yoshinobu ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EDDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; VISCOSITY; ZONAL WIND;

VENUSIA;

EID: 65749103006     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.969     Document Type: Article

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