A comparative study on 3-D solar wind structure observed by Ulysses and MHD simulation

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 672-678

  Feng, Xueshang ^a   Xiang, Changqing ^a   Zhong, Dingkun ^a   Fan, Quanlin ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Solar wind structure; Ulysses observation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749659690     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/982004-293     Document Type: Article

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