Vorticity patterns of sunspot Hα whirls

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1905-1909

  Pevtsov, A A ^a   Balasubramaniam, K S ^a   Rogers, W J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NSF/RET Summer Fellow   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; ROTATION; SUN;

VORTICITY PATTERNS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

SUNSPOT;

EID: 0345967839     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)90624-7     Document Type: Article

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