Methane absorption coefficients for the jovian planets from laboratory, Huygens, and HST data

Icarus

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 674-694

  Karkoschka, Erich ^a   Tomasko, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundances, Atmospheres; Atmospheres, Composition; Jovian planets; Radiative transfer; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149156913     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.07.044     Document Type: Article

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