Eight-year climatology of dust optical depth on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 251, Issue , 2015, Pages 65-95

  Montabone, L ^a,b,c   Forget, F ^a   Millour, E ^a   Wilson, R J ^d   Lewis, S R ^e   Cantor, B ^f   Kass, D ^g   Kleinbohl A ^g   Lemmon, M T ^h   Smith, M D ⁱ   Wolff, M J ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data reduction techniques; Mars, atmosphere; Mars, climate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027944258     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.034     Document Type: Article

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