Hybrid simulations of the expanding solar wind: Temperatures and drift velocities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Hellinger, Petr ^a   Trávníček, Pavel ^a   Mangeney, André ^b   Grappin, Roland ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMAS; PROTONS; HYDRANTS; PLASMA STABILITY; SOLAR WIND;

SOLAR WIND; ADIABATIC EVOLUTION; BOX MODELS; DRIFT VELOCITIES; FIRE-HOSE; HIGH BETA; HIGH-BETA PLASMAS; HYBRID SIMULATION; MAGNETOSONIC;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0041699905     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016409     Document Type: Article

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