Observations of a stationary mid-latitude cloud system on Titan

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 868-877

  Adamkovics M ^a   Barnes, J W ^b   Hartung, M ^c   de Pater, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; Meteorology; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954630629     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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