Scattering of long wavelength shear Alfvén waves by a localized density cavity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Singh, Nagendra ^a   Khazanov, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SHEAR WAVES;

ALFVEN WAVE RESONANCE CONE; LONG WAVELENGTH SHEAR;

GEOPHYSICS;

RESONANCE; S-WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 34249879814     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028831     Document Type: Article

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