Insolation in Titan's troposphere

Icarus

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-119

  Lora, Juan M ^a   Goodman, Paul J ^b   Russell, Joellen L ^b   Lunine, Jonathan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiative transfer; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052867985     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.017     Document Type: Article

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