Comment on the abundances of rotational and tangential discontinuities in the solar wind

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Neugebauer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 33947586144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011497     Document Type: Article

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