Global destabilization due to localized reconnection: A mechanism for coronal mass ejections

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 611-614

  Chen, P F ^a,b   Shibata, K ^b   Yokoyama, T ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 20644465833     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353279     Document Type: Article

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