The impact of martian mesoscale winds on surface temperature and on the determination of thermal inertia

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 504-519

  Spiga, Aymeric ^a,b   Forget, François ^a   Madeleine, Jean Baptiste ^a   Montabone, Luca ^a   Lewis, Stephen R ^b   Millour, Ehouarn ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere, Dynamics; Mars, Atmosphere; Mars, Surface; Meteorology; Mineralogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952898591     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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