Creation and destruction of transitory coronal holes and their fast solar wind streams

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A1, 2003, Pages

  Neugebauer, M ^a,b   Liewer, P C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronal holes; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845617324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009326     Document Type: Article

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