Kinetic properties of heavy solar wind ions from Ulysses-SWICS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  von Steiger, R ^a   Zurbuchen, Thomaz H ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; HEAVY IONS; KINETIC THEORY; METEOROLOGY; WIND;

HELIOSPHERE; KINETIC PROPERTIES; SOLAR WIND;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ION; KINETICS; PLASMA; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 33745727428     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024998     Document Type: Article

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