Compressible convection in the deep atmospheres of giant planets

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 227-238

  Jones, Chris A ^a   Kuzanyan, Kirill M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheres; Dynamics; Interior; Jupiter; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349761247     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.05.022     Document Type: Article

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