A subsurface flow of material from the Sun's equator to its poles

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6655, 1997, Pages 52-54

  Giles, P M ^a   Duvall Jr , T L ^b   Scherrer, P H ^a   Bogart, R S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTERCURRENT FLOW; GAS FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; GAS FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030658756     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36294     Document Type: Article

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