Correlations between cloud thickness and sub-cloud water abundance on Venus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Tsang, Constantine C C ^a,b   Wilson, Colin F ^a   Barstow, Joanna K ^a   Irwin, Patrick G J ^a   Taylor, Fredric W ^a   McGouldrick, Kevin ^c   Piccioni, Giuseppe ^d   Drossart, Pierre ^e   Svedhem, Hakan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^d Instituto di Astrophfisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX DATA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; SPECTRAL WINDOWS;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79952166939     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041770     Document Type: Article

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