MHD turbulence and heating of the open field-line solar corona

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 93-100

  Matthaeus, W H ^a   Mullan, D J ^a   Dmitruk, P ^a   Milano, L ^a   Oughton, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONA; ELECTRON; ION; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0038046123     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-10-93-2003     Document Type: Article

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