Interpretation of solar wind reconnection exhaust in terms of kinetic Alfvén wave group-velocity cones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Singh, Nagendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETICS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

EXHAUST WEDGE ANGLE; RECONNECTION RATE;

SOLAR WIND;

SOLAR WIND; WAVE GROUP;

EID: 34548649499     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030299     Document Type: Article

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