How to improve the maps of magnetic helicity injection in active regions?

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1706-1714

  Pariat, Etienne ^a,b   Démoulin, Pascal ^a   Nindos, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: photosphere

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MASS TRANSFER; PHOTOMAPPING; SOLAR ENERGY;

FLUX DENSITY MAPS; SPATIAL INFORMATION; SUN: CORONA; SUN: MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUN: PHOTOSPHERE;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 34347222539     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.047     Document Type: Article

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