Atmospheric dynamics at the Phoenix landing site as seen by the Surface Stereo Imager

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Moores, John E ^a   Lemmon, Mark T ^b   Smith, Peter H ^a   Komguem, Leonce ^c   Whiteway, James A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STEREO IMAGE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 77649111151     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003409     Document Type: Article

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