Solar wind stream interfaces in corotating interaction regions: New SWICS/Ulysses results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A5, 1999, Pages 9933-9945

  Wimmer Schweingruber, Robert F ^a   Von Steiger, Rudolf ^a,b   Paerli, Raoul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0006827939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja900038     Document Type: Article

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