Radial density, velocity and temperature profiles in a multi-species solar wind close to the coronal base: A self-consistent four-species model

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1935-1938

  Fichtner, H ^a   Vormbrock, N ^b,c   Sreenivasan, S R ^d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 0039767141     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00607-9     Document Type: Article

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