Far-infrared opacity sources in Titan's troposphere reconsidered

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 854-857

  de Kok, R ^a   Irwin, P G J ^b   Teanby, N A ^b  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Composition; Infrared observations; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956270206     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.06.035     Document Type: Article

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