Latitudinal distribution of the solar wind properties in the low- and high-pressure regimes: Wind observations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 852-865

  Lacombe, C ^a   Salem, C ^a   Mangeney, A ^a   Steinberg, J L ^a   Maksimovic, M ^a,b   Bosqued, J M ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Interplanetary physics (solar wind plasma)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042058213     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-0852-x     Document Type: Article

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