Rossby waves on the Sun as revealed by solar 'hills'

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6786, 2000, Pages 544-546

  Kuhn, J R ^a   Armstrong, J D ^a   Bush, R I ^b   Scherrer, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SUN; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 0034212654     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35014530     Document Type: Article

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