Stratospheric superrotation in the TitanWRF model

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 636-654

  Newman, Claire E ^a   Lee, Christopher ^a   Lian, Yuan ^a   Richardson, Mark I ^a   Toigo, Anthony D ^b  

^a Ashima Research   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Dynamics; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956195899     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.025     Document Type: Article

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