Titan global climate model: A new 3-dimensional version of the IPSL Titan GCM

Icarus

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 707-722

  Lebonnois, Sébastien ^a   Burgalat, Jérémie ^b   Rannou, Pascal ^b,c   Charnay, Benjamin ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Dynamics; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857626896     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.032     Document Type: Article

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