Dynamics and circulation regimes of terrestrial planets

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 900-914

  Read, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circulation regimes; Climate; Extra solar planets; Planetary atmospheres

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; CLIMATE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LENGTH SCALE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETER SPACES; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; TIDAL FORCING; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); ROTATION; STARS;

PLANETS;

EID: 79961171762     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.04.024     Document Type: Article

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