On forcing the winter polar warmings in the martian middle atmosphere during dust storms

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 913-921

  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 GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DUST STORM; GRAVITY WAVE; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR REGION; WARMING; WINTER;

EID: 70450177453     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87.913     Document Type: Article

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