Evolution and dissipation of imbedded rotational discontinuities and Alfvn waves in nonuniform plasma and the resultant proton heating

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 5661-5681

  Vasquez, Bernard J ^a   Hollweg, Joseph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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