Solar wind proton temperature anisotropy: Linear theory and WIND/SWE observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Hellinger, Petr ^a   Trávníček, Pavel ^a   Kasper, Justin C ^b   Lazarus, Alan J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; PROTONS; WIND;

ANTICORRELATION; PARALLEL CORE PROTON TEMPERATURE; SOLAR WIND PROTON; VLASOV LINEAR THEORY;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR WIND; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33745699454     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025925     Document Type: Article

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