Wave-like properties of solar supergranulation

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6918, 2003, Pages 43-44

  Gizon, L ^a   Duvall Jr , T L ^b   Schou, J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OSCILLATIONS;

SOLAR SUPERGRANULATIONS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CORIOLIS PHENOMENON; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0347927270     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01287     Document Type: Article

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