Electron heat flow carried by kappa distributions in the solar corona

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3537-3540

  Dorelli, John C ^a   Scudder, Jack D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR CORONA; SPITZER-HARM HEAT LAW;

GEOPHYSICS;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0033501034     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010687     Document Type: Article

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