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ICARUS
Volume 173, Issue 2, Pages 439-446Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.06.020
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Jupiter; atmosphere; radio observations
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The availability of new accurate radio flux densities of Jupiter in and around the lambda similar or equal to 1.3 cm ammonia absorption band, one from ground-based radio data and five from the WMAP satellite, permits re-examination of the structure of the jovian upper troposphere. These flux densities, with accuracies of 1-3%, indicate that the jovian atmospheric ammonia is globally subsaturated within and above the ammonia cloud tops, 0.4 bar <= P <= 0.6 bar, and subsolar (by a factor of 2) below the cloud base, 0.6 bar <= P <= 2 bar. (c) 2004 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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