Uranus and Neptune: Shape and rotation

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 446-454

  Helled, Ravit ^a   Anderson, John D ^b   Schubert, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, dynamics; Neptune; Neptune, atmosphere; Uranus; Uranus, atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957267789     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.06.037     Document Type: Article

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