The heliolatitudinal gradient of the solar wind during solar minimum conditions modelled by exact hydrodynamic solutions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-120

  Lima, J ^a   Tsinganos, K ^b,c  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Research Center of Crete   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR WIND; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

INTERPLANETARY SCINTILLATION; MACROSCOPIC QUANTITIES; NONLINEAR SEPARATION; PLASMA EXPERIMENTS; SOLAR ACTIVITY CYCLES; THREE PARAMETERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SOLUTIONS; ULYSSES SPACECRAFT;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0041880834     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03658     Document Type: Article

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