A model intercomparison of Titan's climate and low-latitude environment

Icarus - Tập 333 - Trang 113-126 - 2019
Juan M. Lora1,2, Tetsuya Tokano3, Jan Vatant d’Ollone4, Sébastien Lebonnois4, Ralph D. Lorenz5
1Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
3Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
4Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, CNRS, UPMC, Paris, France
5Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA

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