Simulating Titan's tropospheric circulation with the portable university model of the atmosphere

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1650-1654

  Grieger, B ^a   Segschneider, J ^b   Keller, H U ^a   Rodin, A V ^c   Lunkeit, F ^d   Kirk, E ^d   Fraedrich, K ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Model of the atmosphere; Titan; Titan's troposphere

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TRAJECTORIES; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND;

CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; MODEL OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TITAN;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 8344272061     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.08.079     Document Type: Article

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