A 3 km atmospheric boundary layer on Titan indicated by dune spacing and Huygens data

Icarus

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 719-721

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   Claudin, Phillipe ^b   Andreotti, Bruno ^b   Radebaugh, Jani ^c   Tokano, Tetsuya ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ESPCI   (France)

^c Brigham Young University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geological processes; Meteorology; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149145868     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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