The three-dimensional solar wind at solar activity minimum

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-126

  Neugebauer, M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0032968551     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998RG900001     Document Type: Article

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