Impact of seas/lakes on polar meteorology of Titan: Simulation by a coupled GCM-Sea model

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 619-636

  Tokano, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, structure; Meteorology; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350409478     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.032     Document Type: Article

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