A nonextensive entropy path to probability distributions in solar wind turbulence

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-180

  Leubner, Manfred P ^a,b   Voros Z ^a  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR WIND; TURBULENCE;

EID: 14944381196     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-12-171-2005     Document Type: Article

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