Scaling of field-line random walk in model solar wind fluctuations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 965-968

  Gray, P C ^a,b   Pontius, D H ^a   Matthaeus, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; SOLAR WIND; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; WIND;

FIELD LINE RANDOM WALKS; FLUCTUATION AMPLITUDES; MAGNETIC FIELD LINE; MAGNETIC FIELD MODELS; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; NONPERTURBATIVE THEORY; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; TWO DIMENSIONAL FLUCTUATIONS;

RANDOM PROCESSES; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ALFVEN WAVES; FIELD LINE EQUATION; FIELD LINE RANDOM WALK; MAGNETIC FIELD MODELS; MODEL SOLAR WIND FLUCTUATIONS; NONPERTURBATIVE THEORY; SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE;

EID: 0030145283     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00769     Document Type: Article

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