Threshold of wave generation on Titan’s
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Ralph D. Lorenz; Claire Newman; Jonathan I. Lunine
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Motivated by radar and near-infrared data indicating that Titan's polar lakes are extremely smooth, we consider the conditions under which a lake surface will be ruffled by wind to form capillary waves. We evaluate laboratory data on wind generation and derive, without scaling for surface tension ef