On the cascade processes of Alfvén waves in the fast solar wind

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A11, 1999, Pages 24819-24834

  Hu, You Qiu ^a,b   Habbal, Shadia Rifai ^a   Li, Xing ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 0000998952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja900340     Document Type: Article

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