Seasonal changes in Titan's meteorology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Turtle, E P ^a   Del Genio, A D ^b   Barbara, J M ^b   Perry, J E ^c   Schaller, E L ^c   McEwen, A S ^c   West, R A ^d   Ray, T L ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; METHANATION; METHANE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPOSPHERE;

CASSINI; CLOUD FORMATION; CLOUD SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; GENERAL CIRCULATION; IMAGING SCIENCE SUBSYSTEMS; LOW LATITUDES; METHANE CONCENTRATIONS; MID-LATITUDE CLOUDS; RAPID TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL SHIFTS; SEASONALITY; TIME-SCALES; TITAN'S CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; METHANE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITAN; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 79751516482     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046266     Document Type: Article

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