A kinematic analysis of the role of velocity shear in expanding plasmas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A10, 1999, Pages 22395-22399

  Aaron Roberts, D ^a   Ghosh, Sanjoy ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SM and A Corporation   (United States)

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