Atmospheric thermal structure and cloud features in the southern hemisphere of Venus as retrieved from VIRTIS/VEX radiation measurements

Icarus

Volumn 232, Issue , 2014, Pages 232-248

  Haus, R ^a   Kappel, D ^b   Arnold, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, structure; Infrared observations; Radiative transfer; Spectroscopy; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894156268     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.01.020     Document Type: Article

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