Vertical structure of the Venus cloud top from the VeRa and VIRTIS observations onboard Venus Express

Icarus

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 599-609

  Lee, Y J ^a,b   Titov, D V ^a,c   Tellmann, S ^d   Piccialli, A ^a   Ignatiev, N ^e   Patzold M ^d   Hausler B ^f   Piccioni, G ^g   Drossart, P ^h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^f Institut für Mathematik   (Germany)

^g INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^h OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, structure; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855346333     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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