Constraining the origins of Neptune's carbon monoxide abundance with CARMA millimeter-wave observations

Icarus

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 379-400

  Luszcz Cook, S H ^a   de Pater, I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abundances, Atmospheres; Neptune, Atmosphere; Radiative transfer; Radio observations; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871370977     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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