Radial evolution of density structure in the solar corona

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1793-1796

  Woo, Richard ^a   Habbal, Shadia Rifai ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; SOLAR ENERGY; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLAR RADIATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

DENSITY STRUCTURE; RADIAL EVOLUTION; SOLAR CORONA;

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; SOLAR SYSTEM;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

CORONAL HOLE; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DENSITY PROFILE; DENSITY STRUCTURES; HELIOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET; INTEGRATED DENSITY; INTERPLANETARY SPACE; RADIAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0032751718     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900366     Document Type: Article

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