Generation of equatorial jets by large-scale latent heating on the giant planets

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 373-393

  Lian, Yuan ^a   Showman, Adam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Dynamics; Jupiter; Neptune, Atmosphere; Saturn; Uranus

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950048119     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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