Flow speed inside the brightness boundary of coronal streamers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Suess, Steven T ^a   Nerney, S ^b  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BRIGHTNESS BOUNDAR; CORONAL STREAMERS; FLOW SPEED;

SUN;

CORONAL MASS EJECTION; FLOW VELOCITY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 33745838902     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026182     Document Type: Article

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