Rocket dust storms and detached dust layers in the Martian atmosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 746-767

  Spiga, Aymeric ^a   Faure, Julien ^a   Madeleine, Jean Baptiste ^a,c   Määttänen, Anni ^b   Forget, François ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atmosphere; convection; dust; Mars; mesoscale; storm

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DUST STORM; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE MOTION;

EID: 84878048475     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21699100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgre.20046     Document Type: Article

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