Wind driven capillary-gravity waves on Titan’s lakes: Hard to detect or non-existent?

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  • A. G. Hayes
  • T. Schneider
  • O. Aharonson
  • D. Casarano
  • C. Notarnicola
چکیده

Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 50742, USA Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland f Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD 20740, USA Center for Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Observatoire de Paris, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France l Institute for Applied Remote Sensing, EURAC, Bolzano, Italy CNR-IRPI, Via Amendola 122 I, Bari, Italy

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تاریخ انتشار 2013